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Comment by multjoy

3 years ago

>If the backup password to these encrypted files is known, it can be rather trivial to access the data within.

That's how encryption works...

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AndrewUnmuted  3 years ago

That's how Apple's encryption in iCloud works. There are plenty of modern encryption standards that are not broken by a random user merely entering a random passphrase string.

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