Actually, a 4 digit pin can be cracked pretty easily. From what I understand, there is an 80 nanosecond delay between attempts, so for 10,000 attempts, the theoretical fastest break is only 800 seconds,
or 13.3 minutes, plus a few minutes for overhead. A 6 character alphanumeric, however, might take as long as 190 years. A 8 character complex, 27 million years. An 8 character alphanumeric would be 750,000 years. Most secrets would be stale by then :-)
I don't know why Apple doesn't just have ADP apply to all data. Maybe is has something to do with syncing when not logged in. I don't see how that would be possible. I don't think itunes syncs mail
(it only syncs the accounts), so I think that's how Apple gets away with encrypting Mail. Still, I would rather the
option to require a login to sync and have safer data than what we have now.
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You would think Apple Data Protection would just be automatic for every app, it's fairly simple to implement... why wouldn't someone implement it?
I know the NSA can crack a 4 or 6 digit pin pretty easily.... (JUST KIDDING!!) :)
Mike
On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Marcus, Allan B wrote:
Well, the choices are stark for encryptions options on iOS devices. Good provides FIPS certified encryption for e-mail/calendar and docs, but there is no way to edit the docs and keep the data in a FIPS encrypted container. Heck, at this point I'd accept
any encryption!
So, we are looking for a way to edit documents in a program that uses ADP to protect the data. QuickOffice SelectPro HD did this, but Google is discontinuing this version.
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Date: Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Office Editing on iPad with ADP?
Good question.
For those that have not read, the info on "Data Protection" in iOS was presented a couple of years ago at WWDC (can dig up the session video) and is described here:
there are multiple features in "Data Protection" so just saying that an app implements the APIs for Data Protection may not be enough to go on.
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Does anyone know of an office editing app on the ipad and/or iphone that uses Apple Data Protection? QuickOffice SelectPro HD is no longer, and as far as I can tell, that was the only one.
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