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Title: Hopkins Boffins Break iMessage Encryption Post by: HCK on March 23, 2016, 04:05:15 pm Hopkins Boffins Break iMessage Encryption
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has found a way to crack open files sent as encrypted instant messages in Apple's iMessage app, according to news reports published Monday. Although it took months to do, the researchers, led by Professor Matthew Green, were able to brute force a 64-bit encryption key, allowing them to unscramble an image file stored in Apple's iCloud. Source: Hopkins Boffins Break iMessage Encryption (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83268.html?rss=1) |