Thank you for all your input and suggestions
Im currently finishing the 8 digit pin dictionary as i type.
Moving on to 9 digit dictionary soon.
Oh the joys
I'll keep you informed of my progress.
OR
The sun will burn out before i finish and it will not matter -)
No, this will never work on a Secure Startup phone (given it was properly identified as one).
Secure Startup means it is actually encrypted with the user passcode, therefore there is no way around discovering the passcode, and engboot will give you root but a fully encrypted user data partition.
If you have a valid brute force method, that’s the only way in.
That is the only way in known by you maybe )
If there is an encrypted binary dump, we can decrypt in many cases the encryped user data partition, no matter of the Android version.
We also fail sometimes, that's part of the game, but at least we don't pretend knowing everything!
You are free to take my words or not )
Yes, some cases can be decrypted offline, but *not* on phones where the encryption key is derived from a hardware key and the user passcode (= Secure Startup).
People usually confuse Secure Boot with Secure Startup, they are not the same thing.
shahar I know pretty well the difference between Secure Boot and Secure Startup )
Sometimes you don't need to deal with the Trusted Zone, the encryption key derived from the hardware key and the user lock can be found inside of a physical dump.
Whoever is reading this, please don't get me wrong, I don't say that this is always possible, that is why I wrote "Sometimes".