No, DennisW, the current state of the art of supercomputers does not have the capability to break 256 bit AES encryption by any known means. The only known means of breaking such a cypher is brute force, trying every possible key until the right key is found. No known algorithm which can find that key by any known mathematical means . . . no one has found such a means. Your belief does not make it so. I am not going to repeat the proof and the math again, but even a supercomputer that can try 3 trillion possible keys a year. . . or even multiply that by 3 trillion times, you are still talking about time not even geographical time scale but on an cosmological time scale. If we stick to the 3 trillion possible keys per year capability of supercomputers available to us today, the time scale is currently 5.62 undecillion (5.62 X 10195) years, for such a supercomputer to try every possible key in a 256 bit AES encryption.
In other words, it is not even possible to do.
Your assumption that brute force is the only way to break the encryption is flawed.
I understand what you are saying about 256-bit AES encryption.
Is that the level of encryption protecting a user's data on a newer iphone?
My wife's iphone requires her to enter a 4 digit PIN number to start. That is certainly not 256 bits. How would she make use of this very strong encryption as described in this article?
I’m reading this document which will probably educate me in this matter:
https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Thanks. I am not going to argue with you on that!!! For sure. So when the US Government cannot break Apple encryption then this is literally true. It just cannot be broken except maybe with some good luck in a brute force attempt....