[cymbeline]

“Apple was the first to use 256 bit AES encryption on their iOS devices”

Interesting post. Is the 256 bit AES encryption something that can’t be broken in less than a very long time, say 100 years?

And gosh, is all the government is really demanding is the 10-attempt thing?

Sounds like no one is going to break into that phone.

[Swordmaker]

Interesting post. Is the 256 bit AES encryption something that can’t be broken in less than a very long time, say 100 years?

If the iPhone were locked with a 16 character passcode (perfectly possible) entangled with the internal 128 character UUID, and you are using a theoretical Supercomputer that could try 150,000 possible keys per second (three trillion per year) possible keys every second, then it COULD be broken in a mere 5.62 undecillion years. That's 5.62 X 10¹⁹⁵ years.

Considering that it is estimated the Universe would have died a heat death into a soup of quarks and leptons by a mere 10⁸⁰ years, your attempted tries would not even be half-way done before there'd be no atoms or protons, neutrons, or even electrons left to do it with.