Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked 208
adeelarshad82 writes "Russian company ElcomSoft is claiming to have cracked the 256-bit hardware encryption Apple uses to protect the data on iOS 4 devices, and is offering software that allows anyone to do it. ElcomSoft can now gain full access to what is stored on a gadget such as the iPhone 4. This includes historical information such as geolocation data, browsing history, call history, text messages and emails, usernames, and passwords."
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TFA, TFA... (Score:2, Interesting)
Looks like TFA didn't read TFA.
Or misunderstood it big time. All of the comments are also about their OLD TOOLS which are related to brute forcing and analysing the BACKUPS and have nothing to do with this hardware encryption getting cracked.
If you read the blog post they say there that there is some data that's not included in the backup that you can access with the hardware encryption keys.
Also they're saying they don't want this ending up in the "wrong hands" and will only offer it to governments and such.