Comments on: What’s With The Encryption in the iPhone 3GS?

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:26:57 +0000

Actually, Apple has documented the security to a decent level of detail; you can read all about it here:
http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_Security_Overview.pdf

It doesn’t answer all of PhoneBoy’s questions, but it’s a start…btw, they use AES 256 bit encoding.

By: What’s With The Encryption in the iPhone 3GS? - Sheryl - FriendFeed

What’s With The Encryption in the iPhone 3GS? - Sheryl - FriendFeed — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:15:24 +0000

[...] FriendFeed Sheryl What’s With The Encryption in the iPhone 3GS? – http://phoneboy.com/3137... 12 minutes ago from Bookmarklet – Comment – Like – Share Dameon always asks the best [...]

By: Eric Hanke

Eric Hanke — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:22:57 +0000

OK. You received your phone. Where are the pics and your initial comments regarding the device?

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:34:10 +0000

MobileMe doesn’t work on a corporate scale. Certainly on a personal one.

Apple is not known for being terribly open, Olly, so this isn’t a huge shock. Software encryption slows things down a bit, which is probably why they didn’t backport it to the 3G (and first-gen).

By: Ollysk2

Ollysk2 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:12:30 +0000

I’m kind of bummed that they wouldn’t extend the encryption back to the regular 3G as well. I understand that they can’t with the hardware encryption, but at least some good software encryption would be nice.

As for the secrecy about the encryption, that is just stupid.. Surely someone at Apple understands cryptography well enough to know that the best encryption is publicly documented encryption? (They need to go back and read the reasoning behind PGP encryption).

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:11:15 +0000

If you have a MobileMe account you can find your phone of lost and initiate the remote wipe. Check it out on me.com if you have an account.