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by cschmidt 3747 days ago
I'm fairly sure that only applies to the iPhone 5, and the FBI is interested in an iPhone 4, which doesn't have the Secure Enclave.
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No, as Apple states, every iOS device has a hardware key.

> Every iOS device has a dedicated AES 256 crypto engine built into the DMA path between the flash storage and main system memory, making file encryption highly efficient.

In newer phones it is in the Secure Enclave instead of the CPU (the SE handles all encryption/decryption for the CPU).