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Mobile Phone Forensics: Blackberry Z10 Analysis

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v.katalov wrote: We (ElcomSoft) are still working on BB 10 backup decryption -- in fact, almost completed. Backups generated by BlackBerry Link are encrypted using the key generated by BlackBerry servers, provided the BlackBerry ID, password, and device ID. The first and third components can be obtained from the backup itself, and if you have the the password, then we are able to get the encryption key and decrypt the backup ... I'm on BlackBerry's legacy OS (BlackBerry 6 to be specific). On BlackBerry 6, backups are saved to my laptop. Though I haven't done any research on how Link works, as a BlackBerry user this concerns me. It doesn't sound good for the BB10 user. It sounds a bit like it could somehow be used to implement a back door by BlackBerry. Is the key really generated by the servers or did you mean by the device? Please elaborate ...

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