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psykovsky
on Sept 30, 2014
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U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google En...
No, he's saying the decryption key will be a simple passcode for an encrypted private key stored on apple's servers, or something even worse than that. Promising, ain't it? ...with the examples we have of the type of passwords people use...
seanflyon
on Oct 1, 2014
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Is the decryption key something the user chooses like a password, or is it random noise generated on the device that the user does not need to know?
psykovsky
on Oct 1, 2014
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Not sure. I suspect it is chosen by the user, going by what I've read.
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