{"id":18667,"date":"2017-08-18T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2018-05-31T21:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T01:29:45","slug":"iphone-secure-enclave-firmware-key-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/iphone-secure-enclave-firmware-key-found\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Secure Enclave Firmware Key Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darthnull.org\/security\/2017\/08\/17\/sep-firmware-key\/\">David Schuetz<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15039460\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/darthnull.org\/security\/2017\/08\/17\/sep-firmware-key\/\">\n<p>Earlier today, it was reported that a hacker\/researcher called &ldquo;xerub&rdquo; had released the encryption key, and tools to use it, for the firmware that runs the Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) on iPhone 5S. Reporting was&#8230;breathless. Stories suggested that this move was &ldquo;destroying key piece of iOS mobile security,&rdquo; and that we should &ldquo;be on the lookout for Touch ID hacks&rdquo; and &ldquo;password harvesting scams.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Is it really that bad? No, not really.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What was released today was the key to decrypt that firmware, but <strong>not<\/strong> a key to decrypt the region of disk used by the SE to store data. So now we can actually reverse-engineer the SE system, and hopefully gain a much better understanding of how it works. But we can&rsquo;t decrypt the data it processes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Schuetz (Hacker News): Earlier today, it was reported that a hacker\/researcher called &ldquo;xerub&rdquo; had released the encryption key, and tools to use it, for the firmware that runs the Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) on iPhone 5S. Reporting was&#8230;breathless. Stories suggested that this move was &ldquo;destroying key piece of iOS mobile security,&rdquo; and that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-01T01:29:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"da783e13-db5c-46e7-aade-356c4fe16082","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-01T01:29:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2ng-E9tcRueq3jVsT-Fggg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1380,85,569,1679,48,573],"class_list":["post-18667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-iphone","tag-iphone5s","tag-secure-enclave","tag-security","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18668,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions\/18668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}