Question about NCK unlocks

[Grimsrud]

I realize that nothing is for sure with the possible unlock, but I'd still like to know how such an unlock would work. Would I have to keep my phone plugged into my computer with a program that guesses the code until it's done, or would I be able to pause the process and start it up once I was back home?

 

[Applejuiced]

Good questions.
I wonder how that all will work and play out.

 

[jav6454]

Corrected... See below.

 

[Grimsrud]

NCK brute force unlocks are really dangerous. You only got 5 tries before the baseband goes into permanent brick mode.

You do not want to Brute Force NCK tokens.

There must be something else to this idea. I doubt musclenerd would have bothered talking it up at all if that was the case.

 

[hackthatphone]

Some reading on the subject:

http://george.insideiphone.com/index.php/2007/12/16/brute-force-on-nck-is-impossible/

http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=NCK_Brute_Force

 

[jav6454]

There must be something else to this idea. I doubt musclenerd would have bothered talking it up at all if that was the case.

I'll correct that statement. I was meaning something else. NCK tokens can be bruteforced but as those articles state, the huge magnitude makes it quite impossible.


I think was thinkin of the actual unlock code input.

 

[maturola]

I'll correct that statement. I was meaning something else. NCK tokens can be bruteforced but as those articles state, the huge magnitude makes it quite impossible.


I think was thinkin of the actual unlock code input.

Yeah, last time I heard about it, doing in regular computer it would take several years to do it, even on a supercomputer it will take months. but I haven't really see much about the new developments.

 

[chiefpavvy]

From what I've been able to gather, they are trying to reduce the calculations required by retrieving a few known variables which will reduce the 40-bits which need to be brute-forced.