If President Obama was thinking of switching from BlackBerry to iPhone, he would be pleased to know that, thanks to its use of extremely strong encryption, the National Security Agency sees it fit to store top-secret data. After all, its own investigators failed to crack it.
According to Technology Review, the iPhone's use of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) a data-scrambling system first used in 1998, makes it nearly impossible to crack. Even if you had one of the world's most powerful super-computers, you still wouldn't even be able to crack it.
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Also helpful is the fact that each iPhone's AES key is not recorded by Apple or any of its suppliers. And if someone does attempt to crack your iPhone, the key is erased and reset after 10 failed attempts.
Feel better?
[via Gizmodo]
