Wired.com talks to Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone developer, hacker, forensics teacher, finder of the iPhone kill switch, creator of the AMBER alert app, about the iPhone 3GS‘ new hardware encryption, recently touted as giving consumers “enterprise-class” security. His take? It’s implemented so poorly it can be cracked in two minutes, “like storing all your secret messages [...]
TidBITS has an interesting write-up on the various security features of iPhone 3.0 in general, and the 256-bit AES hardware encryption of iPhone 3GS in particular, and how combined together:
consumers can now experience enterprise-class security.
They cover passcode lock, data erase, remote wipe, lack of insecure external data cards, frequent and easy to install [...]
iPhone OS 3.0 is the gift that just keeps on giving, this time revealing features in iTunes 8.1 we hadn’t seen before. Now, when you hook an iPhone running the 3.0 beta 1 software up, under the Summary tab you have a new option: Encrypt iPhone backup.
Checking off the option opens a pop-up window for [...]
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