According to a new claim from a group of researchers giving a presentation at the Hack The Box conference taking place in Kuala Lumpur, iMessage security encryption can apparently be circumvented. The claim (via MacWorld) was made by Cyril Cattiaux, an employee of software testing company Quarkslab, and suggests that it would be wrong of Apple to claim unbreakable encryption for iMessages.
The researchers suggest that the public key used for encryption of iMessages is not managed by each iOS device and could actually be used to intercept messages. The claim does appear to be theory, however, rather than a claim that the encryption has actually been broken.
Claiming…