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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 534601" data-attributes="member: 13090">Apple's encryption technology is pretty intense. For current iPhones you have a fingerprint scanner. That scanned biometric information, along with your password, is stored in a separate and semi-isolated chip; in effect a hardware-based solution which is HLS (High Level S--t) all by itself. Apple goes further though... That scanned data is then encrypted at the user-level, meaning Apple doesn't know the key, can't get the key nor can they generate a key of their own. Attempts to &quot;Brute Force&quot; your password, the most common method of &quot;hacking&quot; a password, are defeated by &quot;Time Out&quot; protections. This mean if someone enters the wrong password too many times in a row, the user won't be able to make another attempt at entering the password for, say, two minutes. Additional failures at entering the correct password make for even *longer* time-out periods; something along the lines of eight or ten minutes if memory serves. If you want, you can even enable your iPhone to &quot;wipe&quot; all the data it contains (and I mean EVERYTHING) after too many incorrect password are attempted. This is something the FBI very much does NOT want to happen to these phones. So yeah... Apple is not screwing around with their encryption and I applaud them for it, personally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 534601, member: 13090"] Apple's encryption technology is pretty intense. For current iPhones you have a fingerprint scanner. That scanned biometric information, along with your password, is stored in a separate and semi-isolated chip; in effect a hardware-based solution which is HLS (High Level S--t) all by itself. Apple goes further though... That scanned data is then encrypted at the user-level, meaning Apple doesn't know the key, can't get the key nor can they generate a key of their own. Attempts to "Brute Force" your password, the most common method of "hacking" a password, are defeated by "Time Out" protections. This mean if someone enters the wrong password too many times in a row, the user won't be able to make another attempt at entering the password for, say, two minutes. Additional failures at entering the correct password make for even *longer* time-out periods; something along the lines of eight or ten minutes if memory serves. If you want, you can even enable your iPhone to "wipe" all the data it contains (and I mean EVERYTHING) after too many incorrect password are attempted. This is something the FBI very much does NOT want to happen to these phones. So yeah... Apple is not screwing around with their encryption and I applaud them for it, personally. [/QUOTE]

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