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The key may never be known. A bootrom exploit is needed to obtain the key. Currently, A5 and newer devices do not have a bootrom exploit and may never have one. The only other way to get the key is by hoping Apple doesn't encrypt the ramdisk as they have done with the iPad 2's iOS 4.3.X and iPhone 4S 5.1 ramdisks.
 
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