Matthew GreenI wrote a bit more about the UK’s recent move to allegedly demand backdoors in Apple encryption. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u-k-asks-to-backdoor-icloud-backup-encryption/
aspragg> your backups would be encrypted securely under your phone’s passcode — something you should remember because you have to type it in every day
Securely? But aren't phone passcodes only 4-6 digits long? And if someone has access to the encrypted data, won't they have unlimited attempts to decrypt it? Wouldn't that make a brute-force attack trivial?
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