iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments

Posted by timothy on Friday May 2, 2014 @11:10AM from the giveth-and-taketh-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple has removed encrypted email attachments from iOS 7. Apple said back in June 2010 in regards to iOS 4.0: 'Data protection is available for devices that offer hardware encryption, including iPhone 3GS and later, all iPad models, and iPod touch (3rd generation and later). Data protection enhances the built-in hardware encryption by protecting the hardware encryption keys with your passcode. This provides an additional layer of protection for your email messages attachments, and third-party applications.' Not anymore."

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I need more info by sgt+scrub · 2014-05-02 11:27 · Score: 2, Insightful

At first glance it looked like there might have been a significant enough performance hit using hardware encryption the took it out. It didn't seem like a big deal. TFA makes it sound like encrypted email I pull from my email server is stored decrypted. That would be a big deal.

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Re:Or... by epyT-R · 2014-05-02 14:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

When it comes to encryption, a paranoid default assumption rules the day.