Since the release of the iPhone 3GS, Apple has built encryption into the hardware and firmware of its iPhones and iPads to make user’s data even more secure.

Information from ACELab KB About Apple devices encryption Also, ACELab KB (Anwer Alkandri, thanks for the link) contains info about data recovery from iPhone 3G chip.įigure 1. So it’s possible to use the chip-off technique for data extraction – it’s confirmed by our tests.

But some iOS-devices, including iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, don’t use hardware encryption. Some readers wrote us, that it’s impossible to extract data from any damaged iOS-device. About impossibility in principle of data recovery from damaged Apple devices It’s time to tell you a bit more about what we can do. Kyle_pc_terminator of – man, thank you for this comment. Another possible option would be discovering a side-channel attack that compromised the AES Crypto Engine or CPU in order to reveal the UID. A less risky attack would be using Infrared Laser Glitching. There are some advanced NSA level attacks that can compromise a 4s/5/5c if you want to spend 500k + and hire a company to reverse engineer the silicon of the CPU decapping it with Acid/Ion Laser and probing it. Short Answer is it is impossible to Chip-Off anything above 4s due to Encryption being tied to UID and several other features. Harpreet Singh Dardi, Consultant – Computer Forensics & eDiscovery at PwC How was the decryption done? – Chip off is mostly done in the cases where data is otherwise inaccessible (phone locked, damaged) so the data in the chip would be encrypted and protected by secure enclave. I tried and they ALL ENCRYPTED, except iPhone 3G (very old one) Others wrote, that the data in Apple devices is encrypted (Really? They thought, we didn’t know about it?): ZombieKiller316 of – we don’t know who is it, but we’re sure, he’s a computer forensics professional. Our last article, “Extracting data from a damaged iPhone via chip-off technique”, have received mixed reviews from our readers.

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