[Fed-Talk] iOS encryption article
[Fed-Talk] iOS encryption article
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] iOS encryption article
- From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:49:21 -0700
| Interesting, but I'm not buying the premise (the NSA can't hack it).
Still I think the articles do point out what Apple is good at: taking complex things and bringing them down to the level that mere mortals can use them.
iOS Encryption Is So Good, Not Even the NSA Can Hack It
According to Technology Review, it's not just the use of AES encryption that makes the iPhone such a formidable device to crack, but also because Apple's phones erase the most readily-accessible key every time it's powered off, and has a PIN-system that will wipe the phone after 10 incorrect attempts.
The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold
"I can tell you from the Department of Justice perspective, if that drive is encrypted, you're done," Ovie Carroll, director of the cyber-crime lab at the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Department of Justice, said during his keynote address at the DFRWS computer forensics conference in Washington, D.C., last Monday. "When conducting criminal investigations, if you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data."
Enter the iPhone. Apple's security architecture is so sturdy, and so tightly woven into its hardware and software, that it is both easy for consumers to use encryption on their phones and very difficult for someone else to steal the encrypted information.
Todd
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