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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!sdw
- From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- References: <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Sender: news@meaddata.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:27:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.142742.29624@meaddata.com>
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- : karn@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
- ...
- : >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!
-
- A good lock has a cog that the (??) 'lever' has to drop into before
- testing whether that 'tumbler' is in the right position.
-
- These should be secure without much tolerance (at least to me... :-)).
-
- The easy ones allow movement with pressure on the tumblers.
-
- sdw
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