Encryption support for user data available in next update ? [duplicate]

The question you link isn't full encryption, only data directories. Full encryption is hard, and I wouldn't expect it in the next update. Have you ever tried to fully encrypt a laptop running Linux? You'll find that it's almost impossible to fully encrypt it in the first place...

@gabriel You mean like ticking the encrypt check box in the Linux distribution installer and providing a password ? That isn't that hard IMHO. ;)

(technically this is not full as you need an unencrypted boot partition, but anything else can be encrypted - rootfs, swap, home and any other partitions. So doesn't really matter if you laptop is stolen - the thief won't get to you data.)

I meant encrypting all user data on phone including accounts information, application data and other media files. Updated question again.

@gabriel almost impossible? Well, I didn’t know that, so I just did it (and without a “checkbox in install wizard”, which in fact doesn’t encrypt the whole system, only the userdir).

More information (in french): http://gordon.re/tag/luks.html

gordon: so, you didn't then, because you can't encrypt the boot loader :-) the key word is "almost" here - most of my laptop is encrypted, although arguably you can still inject malicious code in the boot loader and do nasty things while the kernel is loading. On mobile devices, however, things change as everything is custom (no BIOS/EFI/etc.), although Jolla follows the Android way of things (fastboot or whatever). Anyway, I doubt that this goes in the next release as it isn't trivial.