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foodstances
Every time I see an F1 race and see all of the crypto.com ads, I can't help but picture Matt Blaze spending millions of dollars to advertise his blog.
Gordonjcp
Is this available in a readable form?
glorioushubris
I remember reading this when it was published, as I was living in a college dorm at the time and strongly considered using this method to produce a master key. I didn't, because I couldn't think of anything I'd want to do with the master key once I had it. But I enjoyed knowing that I could make one if I'd wanted to.
spoonjim
You don't know that you could make one until you do make one.
jacquesm
That isn't necessarily true. There are a ton of things that I know how to make and that I'm sure that I can make but which I haven't made yet.
aidenn0
I had plenty of legitimate uses for a master key, but I didn't make one because once 2 or 3 people know you have a master key you get blamed for every single misplaced object in the whole damn dorm.
yccs27
The difficulty of this attack is definitely in producing so many test keys. I imagine that it might not be much easier than disassembling the lock.
aidenn0
You need one test key per pin, so on the order of 7 keys; that's not so terrible.
vgel
Don't you need (up to) `N cut depths - 1` keys per pin? E.g. if there are 4 possible cut depths for a pin, and your key has depth 3 on pin 1, you need to (potentially) test depths 1, 2, and 4 -- and if none of them work, your key shares a depth with the master key.
vgel
Oh, you could re-use the same test key if you start at the higher depth, of course.