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Open vgmoose opened this issue 6 years ago • 9 comments

A friendly issue to track the open sourcing status of checkra1n for those who are interested!

According to the FAQ, this is planned for sometime in 2020.

vgmoose avatar Dec 02 '19 07:12 vgmoose

still deferred?

asdfugil avatar Dec 31 '20 13:12 asdfugil

Update! The FAQ now contains the following info:

We will release the full checkra1n source once we have a Windows GUI version. We had hoped to get there in 2020, but we didn't manage to. But PongoOS, the kernel patchfinder and the SEP exploit are already open source on GitHub.

Alongside this tweet: https://twitter.com/checkra1n/status/1344791240584253440

Thanks!

vgmoose avatar Jan 01 '21 02:01 vgmoose

If Windows GUI is really the only thing holding it back for two years, I suggest to release a beta version without GUI support. Community will understand this. Not open sourcing for this reason alone is something very weird. Are there other (real) reasons?

kasperk81 avatar Jun 03 '21 05:06 kasperk81

the problem is not "GUI", but "Windows"

asdfugil avatar Jun 03 '21 15:06 asdfugil

it says once we have a Windows GUI version read

kasperk81 avatar Jun 03 '21 16:06 kasperk81

it says once we have a Windows GUI version read

yeah, then? windows usb api is really problematic there's is no issue with the GUI

asdfugil avatar Jun 05 '21 10:06 asdfugil

windows support can always come later. right now we have linux binaries and no source code. one thing has nothing to do with the other.. it's a beta software, windows bits can be added after open sourcing.

kasperk81 avatar Jun 05 '21 10:06 kasperk81

Any update on this? It's been literal years.

soup6020 avatar Jul 17 '23 04:07 soup6020

Bump: status?

aspauldingcode avatar Mar 26 '24 03:03 aspauldingcode