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by bogus- 3765 days ago
Apple has the encryption keys for data stored on iCloud servers. The FBI wants a backdoor into the phone itself.
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cmurf 3765 days ago
I don't think Apple is in the key escrow business anymore; on OS X they had such an option, to show the user the DEK and optionally store it. I don't think the DEK or KEK are backed up at all in iCloud. If you forget your password, all options I see involve device erasure.
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daxelrod 3765 days ago
It's hard to find this information on Apple's website. According to https://theintercept.com/2014/09/22/apple-data/

> Apple encrypts your iCloud data in storage, but they encrypt it with their own key, not with your passcode key, which means that they are able to decrypt it to comply with government requests.

Not sure if things have changed since then.

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