TOPIC VII. CRYPTOLOGY in the COMPUTER ERA

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TOPIC VII. CRYPTOLOGY in the COMPUTER ERA

Help the FBI Unlock an iPhone

The Tech Giant Apple has come into an entangled situation which could be a potential security
threat for Apple users in near future.
The US Magistrate Judge has ordered Apple to provide a reasonable technical assistance in solving
a critical case of Syed Farook; who with his wife planned a coordinated “2015 San Bernardino
attack” that killed 14 people and injured 22.
As part of the investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had seized the Farook's
iPhone 5C that would be considered as an insufficient evidence until and unless the iPhone gets
unlocked by any means.
Previously, Apple had made several crystal clear statements about its Encryption Policy, stating that
even the company is not able to decrypt any phone data as the private key lies at the user's end. A
similar problem encountered three years back with Lavabit, who was forced to shut down its
services soon after when FBI demands SSL keys to snoop the emails.
However, despite forcing or ordering Apple to break the encryption and unlock the suspect’s
iPhone, judges have ordered the company to find an alternative way to unlock iPhone, keeping data
intact.
From iOS 8, Apple added a data security mechanism called Data Protection, which uses 256-bit
AES Encryption key to encrypt everything on the device.
Here the passcode a user enters is itself used as part of the encryption key and thus, it is impossible
for an attacker or even Apple itself to unlock iPhone until the user re-inputs the passcode. Besides
Data Protection, Apple offers "Auto-Destruct Mode" security feature that will erase all the data on
the iPhone if an incorrect password is entered 10 times concurrently, making the data
unrecoverable.
So, Judge Pym wants Apple to come up with an alternative that should increase the brute force
attempts from 10 to millions, in order to prevent the data from getting self-destructed. Apple has not
yet confirmed whether it is possible to write such a code that can bypass iOS Auto-Destruct feature.
But, if it's possible, it would provide an alternative backdoor mechanism to every law enforcement
and intelligence agency to unlock iPhone by simply brute forcing 4-6 Digit Pins effectively within
few hours.
Here we support Apple policy not to help break its users' encryption, because once a master key is
created to unlock that particular iPhone, we're sure that the US government will misuse this power
and demand for the key again and again in near future for unlocking other phones.
Apple has dismissed the court order to unlock San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook's
iPhone. Here's what Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement:

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“The United States government has demanded that Apple takes an unprecedented step which
threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond
the legal case at hand.”
“We have great respect for the professionals at the FBI, and we believe their intentions are good.
Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help
them. But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and
something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the
iPhone.”
See at
http://thehackernews.com

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