Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by venomsnake on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:23AM
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Unless there is weakness in the PRNG/RNG that creates the fused key in the secure enclave itself. Which is not out of question. I am not sure why FBI didn't ask apple politely how these keys are generated in the first place.
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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
by Dylan16807 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:29AM
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That seems excessively unlikely to me. The phone itself wouldn't have anything to seed a PRNG with, so the random number would need to come from an embedded hardware generator or a dedicated random number device in the factory, and both of those options would have huge amounts of engineering oversight.