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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 03:41:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Sep10.034159.1617
- References: <1391@eouk18.eoe.co.uk> <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Sep4.205842.12303@qualcomm.com>
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- karn@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
-
- >It sounds like that scene was written by the same guy who did the
- >climax of "War Games". Remember how the computer (Joshua?) cracked the
- >missile launch code ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME?
-
- >I wish I could find a bank with a vault whose combination lock worked
- >that way.
-
- most cheap "number wheel" bike locks *do* work that way. Put tension
- on the lock, then spin the cylinders. One will bind as it hits the
- correct number. Then you spin the remaining ones. One of *them* will
- bind. Etc. It takes about a minute to open. :-)
-
- I know of no *decent* lock that behaves this way. But there are a lot
- of junk locks out there!
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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