how iphone works

An FBI request that Apple develop software to bypass the security barriers of the iPhone 5C belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook has highlighted Apple’s encryption methods — technology that uses 256—bit encryption to keep data private. What is 256-bit encryption, Like all computers, your iPhone stores data as 0’s and 1’s. It uses an encryption key — a unique number that is 256 bits long to encrypt all the data on the phone. How long is 256 bits, A bit stores a 0 or 1. One bit has two patterns and two bits have four distinct patterns.