Building and flashing a secured AOSP build with verified boot and separate lockscreen password for the Nexus 5X

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Sep 26, 2018

This tutorial aims to provide detailed instructions on how to solve these caveats, building and flashing AOSP for the Nexus 5X with verified boot and using separate lock screen/encryption secrets. It should also apply for the Nexus 6P with small changes, but I was unable to test it since I didn’t have a Nexus 6P at hand.

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