Apple uses 256bit Advanced Encryption Standard which has but a single key to unlock any data which is so encrypted. Using all the computing power currently available on Earth, it would take 156 times longer than the universe has existed to try just half the possible keys for just one Apple iPhone by brute force! A mathematician calculated the energy required to run the computers to crack just one 256bit AES encryption would exceed the energy available in the universe when entropy was considered in the calculation. . . and that was based on trying two billion keys per second. . . and, no, a really really fast Quantum computer wouldn’t improve things, not at these scales of time. —PING!
Much as I like and revere President Trump, there are some things that just cannot be done. Changing the laws of math is one of them. Apple can’t do it unless they have some clue about the terrorist’s AppleID and passcode. Then they may be able to help. If not, then the law of large numbers is going to block Apple just as much as it does the FBI and the NSA.
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