Adiantum: The New Standard For Smart Phone and Disk Encryption?

Google just doesn’t quite see AES as the future of security on the Internet. It generally sees it as a relatively slow cipher. Within block encryption, the length of the cipherblock is around the same size as the plaintext. In a disk system, this does not work well, and where we need either 512 bytes or 4KB. Overall the solution for this is AES-XTS, and which optimizes for disk…