PaulSanderson wrote:
Bholl92 wrote:
I'm looking into Elcomsoft encryption-breaking software as a potential solution, however I suspect that when we attempt to test it we'll discover it needs around a month to crack a phone's encryption. It's a wild unknown. Has anyone had experience with the Elcomsoft software, or found any other "backdoors" to collecting WP8? (windows phone 8). I thank you all in advance.
I don't know about elcomsoft and I refuse to google for an answer to someone elses problem (others on here will no doubt do that for you). However elcomsoft, or any other password recovery software, will not just 'crack' encryption by pointing the software at a chunk of encrypted data and letting it run for a while (a month or a year). Elcomsoft (and cellebrite etc.) will need to code a solution specifically for windows 8 encryption and then you can point their software at your data and at that point it may take a month (or more, or less) to crack the data.
If I have misunderstood then please advise...
No, I think you've pretty much got it right. I contacted Elcomsoft and they said that they may be able to crack WP8 devices, since they're mainly encrypted with BitLocker. I honestly don't know why the brand of encryption software matters; my guess is it's still AES or the like. Idk it seems like a long shot but there's not too many other options?
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