“This is the LockpickingLawyer, and what I have for you today is a rather uncommon lock.”
Museum experts have used CT scanning to examine the lock’s internal mechanism, identify the correct letter combination and solve the mystery.
Neat
“I tried to unlock it for about 20 years, I tried moving the dials, finding the right combinations, and I failed,” he said.
I was curious why they didn’t just brute force it and try every combination, but this makes sense:
“There are four different rings, and because there are six different letters on each of the rings, there are 1,296 different combinations, and you have to make sure they’re aligned with the loop at the top.”
He had it for 20 years though, trying one combination a day would only take about 4 years
I guess if you need to line it up perfectly, and you don’t want to damage the lock, then it becomes more difficult. You don’t know if you missed the code 3 years ago
That’s about equivalent to a 3 number combination lock. That’ll last you about an hour of brute forcing or less. Much less if you try guessing it with feedback clues.
He should have asked a lock smith. These are not hard to open with a little technique.
They should have mailed it to the lockpickinglawyer.
Then he hits it with a master lock and it just pops open.
No, that’s McNally, LockPickingLawyer is gentler
Senior curator Alastair Willis said the discovery of the code, which spells out ANCE, was “incredible”.
In case anyone else was curious what the combination was. No idea on the meaning of that though.
Middle English for nonce.
thats a cool lock
