It's been awhile so I don't remember, but I find it incredible that I would have denied you this information… I had totally no idea that it had application outside of making a pretty picture for a ramdisk jailbreak. The only people who ever asked me about it wanted to create their own ramdisk jailbreaks. The only people who ever asked me about it had never contributed back to the xpwn project despite heavily using it in their own work. At the time, we were afraid of leaks to those who actually sell the jailbreak for profit, and this was just a cosmetic advantage that would help defeat them but would not hinder the community. If we had known there was an application outside of jailbreaking, I think this information would have been immediately released.

Perhaps I misremember and you did ask me and I did turn you away, in which case I definitely deserve the castigation. However, the point is moot since I did mean for the code to be easy to reverse. I daresay you benefitted from my research almost as easily if I had given you the C source…. I'd already lifted the key parts from CoreGraphics that made it work for you.

It's sad to see a team based on opening a device up become so determined to keep their information closed and a secret.