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Forum Discussion
sieler
Apr 24, 2017Aspirant
How can I unpack/extract files from a Radiator firmware package (e.g., raidiator-4.1.15)?
Hi,
(ReadyNAS 1100)
We've never had a ReadyNAS firmware/OS upgrade go smoothly. The last attempt took us about 6 months
to unscrew (it left most of the /frontview files missing ......
- Apr 26, 2017
I've sent you a PM
sieler
Apr 26, 2017Aspirant
thanks!
I'd hope that, given the age of the files, Netgear would release the encryption / unpacking information.
Had I known updates were encrypted, I'd not have purchased the product.
The existence of the forum, however swayed me to buying. thanks for the help!
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 26, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
The encryption was reverse engineered years ago.
Only Sparc firmware is encrypted and some official NETGEAR Sparc and legacy x86 (i.e. RAIDiator-x86) add-ons are encrypted as well.
The firmware on current models is not encrypted but as always there is some proprietary code. We do provide source code for the open source stuff we use on our GPL page.
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