Originally Posted by KilerG

I can't wait to get CM10 running on this thing lol. It looked great for the early stages on the Prime.

Yeah, me too, CM10 is going to kick ass to my Infinity as soon as its available
But, I think more important right now is to unlock the bootloader - as soon as possible - we just have to wait for Asus on this one, which sucks a bit. How long did it take for Prime and other transformer line products to receive an unlocker?

TF300 got it very quickly (less than a month since original release I think)

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Originally Posted by d14b0ll0s

TF300 got it very quickly (less than a month since original release I think)

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Ughhhhh... damn -- how long can "a little less than a month" feel?

Originally Posted by MartyHulskemper

Ughhhhh... damn -- how long can "a little less than a month" feel?

It can be Infinity, I guess.

Someone try and find an exploit based on the prime's unlock, but waiting is so much easier

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Originally Posted by Svashtar

Yeah, me too, CM10 is going to kick ass to my Infinity as soon as its available
But, I think more important right now is to unlock the bootloader - as soon as possible - we just have to wait for Asus on this one, which sucks a bit. How long did it take for Prime and other transformer line products to receive an unlocker?

Not sure about the Prime, but my TF300 got unlocked about a month to a month and a half after release. I think it was released at the end of April (in the US), and the unlocker was released either in the middle of May or the end of that month. It was a long wait even though it actually wasn't that much time.

Originally Posted by tpmullan

Someone try and find an exploit based on the prime's unlock, but waiting is so much easier

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Not possible. Devs have been trying to crack the Asus unlocker app for months. Asus' encryption is RSA-2,048 (that means the key is 2,048 bits long), which is almost completely unbreakable without a supercomputer to perform a ton of calculations. Even the NSA can't crack it efficiently.

For example (I researched RSA-2048 as I wrote this post), the most complex RSA encryption to be cracked thus far is RSA-768. The team that cracked it estimated that a 2.2GHz AMD Opteron with 2GB of RAM would need 1,500 YEARS to do the math required to break RSA-768 encryption.

Can you imagine how long it would take to break encryption that's almost 3 times stronger than that? Unless someone can come up with an insane algorithm to factor 2,048 bit numbers or you know a developer with a supercomputer laying around, no one's about to crack Asus' bootloader any time soon.

Edit: I should have paid more attention to the article. The team of crackers estimate that the desktop I referenced earlier would take "4,294,967,296 x 1.5 million years" to crack RSA-2,048 encryption. As terrible as a 2.2GHz Opteron is these days, I wouldn't expect much better from a top-of-the-line modern computer.

I don't think we have that much time, even with the Infinity.

Originally Posted by EndlessDissent

...the desktop I referenced earlier would take "4,294,967,296 x 1.5 million years" to crack RSA-2,048 encryption. As terrible as a 2.2GHz Opteron is these days, I wouldn't expect much better from a top-of-the-line modern computer.

No, even with a crapload of vitamins and healthy living to the max I won't make it that far (neither would I wish to). Oh, well, a month's waiting isn't that bleak when seen in this bit of context.

Originally Posted by EndlessDissent

Not sure about the Prime, but my TF300 got unlocked about a month to a month and a half after release. I think it was released at the end of April (in the US), and the unlocker was released either in the middle of May or the end of that month. It was a long wait even though it actually wasn't that much time.



Not possible. Devs have been trying to crack the Asus unlocker app for months. Asus' encryption is RSA-2,048 (that means the key is 2,048 bits long), which is almost completely unbreakable without a supercomputer to perform a ton of calculations. Even the NSA can't crack it efficiently.

For example (I researched RSA-2048 as I wrote this post), the most complex RSA encryption to be cracked thus far is RSA-768. The team that cracked it estimated that a 2.2GHz AMD Opteron with 2GB of RAM would need 1,500 YEARS to do the math required to break RSA-768 encryption.

Can you imagine how long it would take to break encryption that's almost 3 times stronger than that? Unless someone can come up with an insane algorithm to factor 2,048 bit numbers or you know a developer with a supercomputer laying around, no one's about to crack Asus' bootloader any time soon.

Edit: I should have paid more attention to the article. The team of crackers estimate that the desktop I referenced earlier would take "4,294,967,296 x 1.5 million years" to crack RSA-2,048 encryption. As terrible as a 2.2GHz Opteron is these days, I wouldn't expect much better from a top-of-the-line modern computer.

I don't know if this applies to the infinity but there are other ways of cracking this stuff. For my evo 3d, the boot loader unlock method involved intentionally bricking the device to access a hidden sort of mode where the partitions could be rewritten. If I remember correctly, that bootloader was also encrypted.

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Originally Posted by jdeoxys

I don't know if this applies to the infinity but there are other ways of cracking this stuff. For my evo 3d, the boot loader unlock method involved intentionally bricking the device to access a hidden sort of mode where the partitions could be rewritten. If I remember correctly, that bootloader was also encrypted.

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Failing that, if we got root we could probably try the 2nd init trick used on locked down Motorola phones, where immediately after the bootloader loads a rooted Asus firmware, the trick unloads everything but the kernel and starts loading your custom rom. The only flaw with the approach is you're still locked into using Asus's kernel, but otherwise you're free.

That said, with an official unlock I cant imagine there'd be a ton of demand or developer interest in such a solution.