Rumor: Samsung stops Knox – update

Samsung would stop Knox security platform after a development period of 18 months. That reports Forbes. At Google’s I/O developer conference in June this year, Google announced it was integrating a Knox-style security platform into Android.

Google will use parts of Samsung’s Knox for security in the upcoming Android L release, with which Google will capitalize on the bring-your-own-device trend. Samsung’s platform already seemed to become redundant after the announcement of Google. Possible reason that Samsung is pulling the plug on Knox, according to Forbes, is that it only has a market share of 2 percent. Falling sales and disappointing results from Samsung would also have killed the security platform.

Knox uses a container to shield business software from the private part of an Android device. Data within the container is encrypted using the aes256 algorithm and is said to be inaccessible to malware. For the development of Knox, Samsung used the source code of Security Enhanced Android; an architecture based on SELinux. Samsung said a few weeks ago that it was excited to partner with Google to explore the possibility of improving Android’s business ecosystem together.

Update: Samsung denies quitting Knox