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Enclave: An Unpickable Lock

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Re: Enclave: An Unpickable Lock

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I do feel that selective brute forcing is going to become popular one day or another

e.g. a key with mechanical sections to actuate the pins to specific heights, plus, a very precise rotational sensor (perhaps acoustic sensors too)

but anyways, potential but easily fixable methods: a magnet with enough force to pull the slider would give tension, so just don't make it ferrous

the slider will always get super close to the front of the lock body, could be drilled, even if a stronger steel or the such, and then tension from there. Fixed by not surrounding the last pin with the slider, only needs ~1/4th of the last pin's space at most.

Its a nice solution, very compact overall

Re: Enclave: An Unpickable Lock

#9

LockPickingLawyer[1] might have something to say about "unpickable". [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

"With a special shim made from the cap of a whiskey that Bosnian Bill and I were drinking, I managed to pick this lock in 23 seconds. In all fairness, without this specialized tool, this would have been an incredibly difficult feat..."
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