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22 hours. That's the time needed to break it. The pin is so short (4 or 6 digits) that if you can remove the 10 tries limitation and time escalation (Apple can
by riquito 11y ago
22 hours. That's the time needed to break it.
The pin is so short (4 or 6 digits) that if you can remove the 10 tries limitation and time escalation (Apple can with a new firmware) it's a matter of time to hack the phone (22 hours. 80ms [1] per attempt * 10^6 pins). It seems a farce to me that Apple says that they can't decrypt it (or maybe they never said that?). With a stronger pw it would be a different story though.
Am I wrong in any assumption?
[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/02/encryption-isnt-at-stake-the-fbi-knows-apple-already-has-the-desired-key/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/02/encryption-isnt-at-stak...
- lathiat 11y agothat is correct for a 6 digit pin, of course if you used an alphaumeric passcode it would take much longer. brute force 8 characters would take millions of years, though in practice you could significantly reduce the search space in typical password cracking ways (word lists, etc) but never the less. the takeaway is that you should use a much more complex password.
- riquito 11y agoAt 80ms per attempt you need 3 months to brute force an 8 pin password. Things get ugly soon btw, 9 characters 2.5 years, 10 characters 25 years and so on. We reach millions of years at 15 characters edit: I was calculating on the assumption that you can only use numbers as a pin