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by leonatan 3770 days ago
The encryption key is deleted. All data can remain on the flash for years, but it's useless.
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But if you're planning on brute forcing the encryption key, this side-effect doesn't matter.
The key is not the password. If that were the case, the phone would have to re-encrypt everything everytime you change the pin or password. The password unlocks the key. And if you brute force the key itself, it might take decades, maybe centuries.