Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 17:34 Post subject: a bit of a question about Archer C9 v5...
sometime late last year (October/November 2020) they sort-of published a beta firmware in a thread on their community forum, and that firwmare seems unsigned... (or removes the signature requirements?)
(posted as code because they check referer headers in URLs - a direct link from here results in a silly message from their server)
does that mean they removed the crypto protection from the router with this firmware? Can we finally have DD-WRT firmwares on C9 v5 hardware by using this firmware as intermediary?
if not.. i'm planning to buy another router soon... i'm growing tired of TPLink's locked cryptoshit (BrainSlayer's own words in that locked thread) that i have to replace every few years and gamble on whether i receive a hardware revision that supports DD-Wrt or not.
since the beginning. the firmware format is different from all others. it contains a signature. and the rest is just a jffs file. within the jffs file there is a ram cfe. the original bootloader loads this bootloader from this
I will forward this information on to the developer, but I don't expect any magical support for this device to come out of anywhere. And we are not going to have yet another thread about this running amok.