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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.160057.10250@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 16:00:57 GMT
- References: <1391@eouk18.eoe.co.uk: <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- In article <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com:, leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- : 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?
- : 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!
-
- Most decent locks are resistent to the tension method of breaking the lock
- numbers. But the ironic thing is that the cheaper locks are *HARDER* to
- break in some ways. This is because the tolerances are so lousy that it
- is hard to get a good feel of which element is next. But then, I'm talking
- about pin or wafer locks.
-
- Now, how does one put tension on an electronic lock? :-)
-
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- Kenneth Ng
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