October 5, according to foreign media reports, a company specializing in the development of Russian companies cracking tools claim they have cracked the BlackBerry smart phone data backup password protection.
Obviously, the BlackBerry has its PC and Mac desktop software backup system and the BlackBerry system has been 256-bit AES encryption. Elcomsoft said that, but associated with a way to repair the password attack back.
Here "relevant" means a combination with Intel Core i7 processor case letters in about half an hour to crack the code. More complex password to use the same hardware in three hours to crack.
ElcomSoft claims BlackBerry offline backup mechanism is vulnerable because it's the key derivation function PBKDF2 iteration only once, compared to Apple iOS 3.x in the next iteration 2,000 times, and iOS 4.x up to 1 million times, ElcomSoft, said Apple BlackBerry backup protection is not safe and can be quite fast break.
In addition to its own smart phone, Blackberry document encryption is also used in desktop or Mac PC, and that means that the data as encrypted form without being exchanged. Katalov added.