Lockpick LibrarySafe Cracking and breaking into safes: Ultimate collection of how-to’s and guides. » http://www.lockpicklibrary.com Comprehensive Collection Of High Quality Lock Picking Techniques Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Operating Instructions for X-09: Type 1F High Security Electronic Lock http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/operating-instructions-for-x-09-type-1f-high-security-electronic-lock.html http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/operating-instructions-for-x-09-type-1f-high-security-electronic-lock.html#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:38 +0000 tazeen http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/?p=126 The X-09 uses sophisticated computer security and makes dialing much easier than that of traditional combination locks. The microprocessor in the lock recognizes a number as part of a combination when you change dialing direction.

The Lock On Back Cover (LOBC) feature provides a locking mechanism that locks the back cover in place after installation. The design is such that the back cover cannot be removed without visible damage unless the combination is known, regardless of whether the lock is locked or unlocked

The user should dial with complete, full wrist turns. Stopping to regrip produces pauses in dialing activity. This helps the X-09 distinguish between human and robotic dialers.

An X-09 lock will initiate a timed lockout of 3 minutes when ten consecutive wrong combinations have been dialed. Each additional unsuccessful attempt to open the lock will initiate another timed lockout. If the number of consecutive unsuccessful attempts reaches fifteen, the timed lockout increases to 4 minutes. The lockout period is only timed while the lock is powered. To keep the lock powered until the timed lockout has expired, turn the dial every 30 seconds. A successful opening resets the error count.

If the door of your container is shut and the X-09 is accidentally locked with the Change Key stillinserted in the back of the lock, you can recover with procedure mentioned in this manual.

Following are the Contents of Operating Instructions for X-09: Type 1F High Security Electronic Lock:

  • INTRODUCTION
    • Lock On Back Cover
  • DIALING THE X-09
    • Dialing Methods
    • To Power the Lock
    • Dialing A Combination
  • OPEN AND CLOSE THE X-09 (FACTORY COMBINATION)
    • To Open the Lock (Using the Factory Combination)
    • To Close the Lock
  • X-09 LOCK SETUP
    • Set Operating Mode and Change Combinations
    • If You Lock the Change Key in the Safe
    • USING THE X-09
    • Single Combination Mode
    • Dual Combination Mode
    • Supervisory/Subordinate Mode
    • Correct Method of Closing/Relocking Container
  • AUDIT FEATURES OF THE LOCK
    • To Check the Number of Successful Openings
    • To Check the Number of Unsuccessful Attempts
  • GUIDE TO SYMBOLS

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]]> http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/operating-instructions-for-x-09-type-1f-high-security-electronic-lock.html/feed 0 The Science of Opening Safes http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/the-science-of-opening-safes.html http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/the-science-of-opening-safes.html#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:24:57 +0000 tazeen http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/?p=120 Safes come in a wide variety of sizes and applications. One can encounter wall, floor, or vault models of varying thickness and offering a wide variety of resistance to the determined agent.
Most safes have at least one combination mechanism. The combination is preferred as there are no keys to lose or have copied, and the number of possible combinations varies from over 1 million to 1 billion, thus making it a bit time consuming to open one randomly.
One of the most popular methods over the years has been the burn job. This is accomplished with an oxy-acetylene torch. The protecting wall in front of the dial mechanism is cut away revealing the tumblers which are manipulated to open the door.

Many different techniques of opening safes have been mentioned in here. Learn the Science of Opening Safes with this straightforward and easy to follow guide.

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]]> http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/the-science-of-opening-safes.html/feed 0 Safecracking For The Computer Scientist http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/safecracking-for-the-computer-scientist.html http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/safes/safecracking-for-the-computer-scientist.html#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:16:46 +0000 tazeen http://www.lockpicklibrary.com/?p=117 There is an undeniable mystique surrounding safes and vaults. Containers to safeguard valuables and secrets from theft and prying eyes have existed almost as long as the concepts of valuables and secrets themselves, and yet in spite of the “Internet age,” details of safes and the methods used to defeat them remain shrouded in obscurity and even a certain amount of mystery.

For all the reticence surrounding the subject, however, safes and safe locks (and how they are defeated) are worthy topics of study for students not only of locksmithing but of information security. An unfortunate side effect of the obscurity of safe and vault technology is the obscurity of tools and techniques that deserve to be better known and more widely applied to other disciplines.

The attack models against which safes are evaluated, for example, are far more sophisticated than their counterparts in computer science. Many of the attacks, too, will remind us of similar vulnerabilities in computer systems, in spite of having been discovered (and countermeasures developed against them) decades earlier.

A safe or vault is a container designed to resist unauthorized entry by force. Even the best safes and vaults are not absolutely impenetrable, of course; their strength is constrained by both physics and economics. Safes are distinguished from one another not by whether they can be penetrated, but by how long it would be expected to take, the resources required, and the evidence it produces

The most obvious lock security factor is the number of distinct combinations; it provides a bound on the time required for exhaustive search. Most safe and vault lock dials are divided into 100 graduations with three or occasionally four dialed numbers in the combination.

Safecracking For The Computer Scientist is a well illustrated treatise which will examine security against forced, covert and surreptitious safe opening, focusing on the mechanical combination locks most commonly used on commercial safes in the US.

Following topics are discussed in Safecracking For The Computer Scientist:

  • Safe and vault security: a computer science perspective
  • Safe and vault construction
  • Container security metrics
  • Lock security metrics
  • The combination keyspace
  • Manipulation resistance
  • Using security metrics
  • Group 2 mechanical combination locks
  • Retracting the lock bolt: the drive cam and lever
  • Enforcing the combination: the fence and wheel pack
  • Dialing the combination
  • Other considerations and design variants
  • Observations
  • Attacks against containers
  • Forced entry: brute force
  • Covert entry: drilling
  • Principles of destructive decoding and bypass
  • Determining drilling points
  • Hardplate drilling techniques
  • Surreptitious entry: lock manipulation
    • Manipulation principles
  • Measuring relative fence depth
    • Wheel pack analysis: the simple case
    • Wheel pack analysis: complex cases
    • Learning manipulation
    • Design variants and manipulation countermeasures
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Acknowledgments and further reading
  • References

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