On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jim Hickstein <j...@jxh.com> wrote: > On 2010/11/02 18:58, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Combination locks can be amazingly easy and quick to brute-force, even if > they are Military-grade. >
As with most things, it depends. > Especially if you know something like "one button, then two buttons, then > one > button", and each button can be pushed only once, as is true with these > door > locks but not necessarily the poster's 5-position-by-10-value laptop lock. > > Yes. My guitar's rotary 10**3 position lock is very easy to brute force on paper. In practice it seemed more interesting to use an alternate method after exhausting 10% of the address space. Riley -- "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." —George Santayana
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