Re: [android-developers] Google drive Encryption and Decryption

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:41 AM, vgokila <vgokila@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google drive provides an option of Encryption and Decryption of offline
> files in mobile app. Can anyone update what is the decryption mechanism used
> to decrypt the files since for large files decrypting it every time will be
> time consuming.

Since you can't change it, does it really matter? Have you done any
benchmarking? It is most likely some symmetric encryption with a
key derived from your password, etc. Performance will largely depend
on the particular hardware (mostly CPU), so it will be different on
different phones.

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