Why It's So Hard For The Government To Hack Your Phone
The FBI is currently in a battle with Apple to allow encrypted phones be unlocked, but how does encryption even work? How Powerful Is Apple? ▻▻▻▻ http://bit.ly/1OBOqRk Sign Up For...
========== The US government is unable to hack iPhones
that use an encryption standard they helped create. Oh the irony. Hi haxors, Julian here for DNews. Way way
back in 2001, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced their new standard
for....encryption technology. The Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES, was the product
of years of testing competing designs with open public scrutiny and feedback. The winner
was made by belgian cryptographers Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen, who called it the
Rijndael (rain-dahl) Cipher. And it is a doozy. The goal of cryptography is to make a message
so scrambled the original message can’t be divined. Rijndael does this by taking the
data and breaking it into 128 bit chunks, a bit being the smallest unit of data i...