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To: Swordmaker

Not like breaking the Enigma code there,St.James!


50 posted on 04/07/2016 12:36:23 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus
Not like breaking the Enigma code there,St.James!

Actually, it's harder than breaking the enigma code. . . by quite a few orders of magnitude. We're talking several decades of advancement in encryption, Dr. Ursus. This is not any mere substitution code or even anything linear. The iPhone is protected by a 256bit Advanced Encryption Standard encryption. The new iPhones passcodes are not stored on the devices at all. Instead, the passcodes are stored as a one-way hash inside an unreadable Secure Enclave that cannot be read from outside the device by any known means and that one-way hash is stored in a buried EEPROM that will be destroyed by any attempt to reach it.

51 posted on 04/07/2016 1:27:35 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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