If the encryption key didn&#x27;t depend on the hardware this would work. Even the iPhone 5C that the recent court case is about relies on the hardware keeping a key secret and it doesn&#x27;t contain the secure enclave. For an iPhone 5C, the encryption key is derived from the pin and a unique ID for the phone that the CPU itself can&#x27;t read. The only thing that the application processor can do is perform some crypto instructions using the key, there isn&#x27;t an operation that would just put the key into memory or a register that you can read from. Even if you have root and the phone in front of you with the password, there&#x27;s nothing you can do short of decapping it to try to identify that key.