is Cryptex a standard part of the ios system ?

came accross this in a crash log recently. according to what the apple documentation says, unless im totally misreading the highlighted text, theres someone creeping around on my phone?

iPad, iPadOS 16

Posted on Nov 2, 2022 6:46 AM

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Posted on Nov 2, 2022 6:53 AM

You are totally misreading it. Yes it a native part of iOS. Which is why it clearly states it won't allow execution on a user device.


There's nothing lurking in your iPhone, unless you allowed physical access to it, when unlocked, near a computer, for an extended period of time.




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Nov 2, 2022 7:12 AM in response to Community User

There are obviously many daemon processes that run under control of the Operating System - many of which will relate to monitoring system stability and collection of crash data.


The only references to Cryptex extensions, within the published Apple Platform Security Guide, appear in relation to Apple Security Research Devices. Published information suggests that employed safeguards do not allow the same degree of privileged access available to security researchers using proprietary Security Research Devices, is inhibited for standard User devices.


As for your Amazon crash log, unless you have explicitly given permission for logs to be shared with Apple - or you have manually exported these logs (or excepts - as published here), none of these log files leave your device.


The only exception to crashlog reporting relates to App beta-testing - where crashlog data may be automatically shared with the App Developer. Such beta Apps will be loaded by the User from the Apple TestFlight App.

Nov 2, 2022 7:26 AM in response to Community User

viglio wrote:

just out of curiosity what about the beta identifier number? im not part of any beta program

Impossible to know what it refers to, as Idris mentions unless you know exactly what the logs mean there's no way to know what any of it refers to. Beta in the crash log does not need to refer to a beta version of iOS. but again, only the Apple developers would know what they are referring to there specifically.


Again, and this cannot be stressed enough, unless you really know what you are looking at in crash logs, its really not going to provide much info any normal person can decipher. These are all for internal use only and as such it's going to be something only Apple developers know the meaning of for any specific item there.

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