Deprecate uses of Android Protected Confirmation
Android Protected Confirmation is deprecated due to the high support/maintenance cost for Android device makers and low adoption rate among app developers. APC requires Android device makers to have a substantial amount of device-specific UI code running in the trusted execution environment. That has proven to be expensive to maintain and non-scalable, as there cannot be a single implementations device makers can share or use as a reference. Additionally, app developers have not adopted this feature, as the Android platform offers other mechanisms for authentication a user's intent. These mechanisms, such as authentication-bound Keystore keys, are less secure than Trusted UI, but are more wide-spread. While we explore alternatives to APC that are viable to the device makers ecosystem, we sunset the APC API. Test: atest CtsKeystoreTestCases Bug: 313856313 Change-Id: I529150af4ce70371ba8c279dc91550a12640f109
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