Firmware

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This article is about the firmware itself. If you are trying to get a copy of the firmware files, please see Dumping firmware and Extracting firmware. NOTE: Please excuse the chaotic layout of this article. It is under construction. :-)

osos

This is the main firmware partition of the iPod. This part has been encrypted ever since the iPod Nano 2G.

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Firmware layout.png

aupd

Here is a comparison between the different aupd partitions of firmware version in the iPod Nano 2G:

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IN2G cipher aupd diffs.png

rsrc

This is the filesystem of the iPod. It is unencrypted and of not much use to this project.

Helpful pages

http://home.gna.org/linux4nano/download/crypto_synth-1.0.pdf

http://www.ipodlinux.org/wiki/Firmware