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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Fri Jul 24 13:43:42 2009
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:04:46 -0400
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
>From <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/iphone-encryption/>:
the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3=
GS
is so weak it can be cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of
readily available
freeware...=93I don=92t think any of us [developers] have ever seen encr=
yption
implemented so poorly before, which is why it=92s hard to describe
why it=92s such a
big threat to security.=94...Wondering where the encryption comes
into play? It
doesn=92t. Strangely, once one begins extracting data from an iPhone 3GS=
,
the iPhone begins to decrypt the data on its own
-Michael
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