[gambiting]

Sure, but there are companies like the Israeli NSO which apparently has cracked the uncrackable iPhone secure enclave, I can't believe that for the right amount of money they wouldn't take a stab at it, or at least try to figure out a way to have unlimited password tries for this guy. Idk, maybe I'm being naive.

[curryst]

Well, to be clear, they'd be working on contingency. Unless this guy is otherwise wealthy, he probably won't have a million dollars laying around to give them.

I wouldn't hold my breath on companies willing to work on contingency to break a piece of crypto the US government uses. Not that the government is particularly competent at this, but it's a reasonable bar. Plus there will almost certainly be legal issues stemming from cracking devices the government uses.