Apple’s iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Has Been Cracked

40 minutes and physical access. That’s all russian company ElcomSoft is claiming to need in order to crack the 256-bit hardware encryption Apple uses to protect the data on iOS 4 devices. Full access to everything that’s stored inside, including “historical information such as geolocation data, browsing history, call history, text messages and emails, usernames, [passwords, and even some] data deleted by the user”, is obtained.

25 Comments

  1. 2011-05-25 3:16 pm
    • 2011-05-25 3:19 pm
  2. 2011-05-25 3:57 pm
    • 2011-05-25 3:58 pm
  3. 2011-05-25 4:03 pm
    • 2011-05-25 7:38 pm
      • 2011-05-26 8:14 am
  4. 2011-05-25 4:34 pm
    • 2011-05-25 5:07 pm
      • 2011-05-25 5:24 pm
        • 2011-05-25 8:16 pm
        • 2011-05-26 4:09 am
      • 2011-05-25 8:31 pm
        • 2011-05-25 11:35 pm
          • 2011-05-25 11:37 pm
          • 2011-05-26 9:05 pm
          • 2011-05-26 10:05 pm
          • 2011-05-27 9:56 am
          • 2011-05-28 10:38 am
    • 2011-05-25 5:39 pm
      • 2011-05-25 5:42 pm
        • 2011-05-25 6:01 pm
        • 2011-05-25 7:07 pm
  5. 2011-05-25 7:02 pm
  6. 2011-05-25 10:41 pm