Based on the information in the Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker FAQ the article makes some mis-statements.
The article states the software allows you : '... to recover data and perform forensics on devices." but according to the FAQ the software does not operate on the device itself but rather on backups:
Q: So, what is it all about?
A: Phone Password Breaker takes care of password-protected iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad backups.
The article also states: "What ElcomSoft did was to create a toolkit that allows for the extraction of the encryption keys from such a device." but again according to the FAQ you cannot recover encryption keys from the device. As stated above the software only works on backups. In fact they state at the very top of the FAQ:
Q: Will your product jailbreak my iPhone, unlock it from the carrier, remove passcode lock, or reset a SIM card PIN code?
A: Sorry, no way.
This also debunks the various posts claiming that this attacks the iphone unlock password. According to the FAQ, the software performs a tailored brute force attack on iphone and blackberry backups which have a different password than the device unlock password.
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Based on the information in the Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker FAQ the article makes some mis-statements. The article states the software allows you : '... to recover data and perform forensics on devices." but according to the FAQ the software does not operate on the device itself but rather on backups:
Q: So, what is it all about?
A: Phone Password Breaker takes care of password-protected iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad backups.
The article also states: "What ElcomSoft did was to create a toolkit that allows for the extraction of the encryption keys from such a device." but again according to the FAQ you cannot recover encryption keys from the device. As stated above the software only works on backups. In fact they state at the very top of the FAQ: Q: Will your product jailbreak my iPhone, unlock it from the carrier, remove passcode lock, or reset a SIM card PIN code? A: Sorry, no way. This also debunks the various posts claiming that this attacks the iphone unlock password. According to the FAQ, the software performs a tailored brute force attack on iphone and blackberry backups which have a different password than the device unlock password.