 All right. Hey everyone What people are doing? Well, I hope everyone's staying safe out there I'm nothing Welcome to DEF CON safe mode so This is basically going to be an introduction into the world of high security locks and Kind of what they look like what they are and how we go about picking them so I'm gonna Kind of just show you a bunch of locks and tell you some different techniques. I'm not going to go into anything super deep, but Hopefully it'll get some people out there interested in Exploring and maybe even picking some of these things So when you talk about a high-security lock We're mainly talking about a lock That has tried a little bit harder than your general typical pin tumbler wafer lever lock To keep people out and that can be anything from pick resistance to Physical attacks though. I'm not going to go into physical security a whole lot here Mainly going to be talking about the locking mechanisms, but high-security locks will generally be more physically resistant as well They'll have more drill protection better materials in the Cases and the pins will be made out of steel instead of brass a lot of times things like that so basically high-security locks are Typically referred to as locks that have more than just one standard locking mechanism Now these this can be either by incorporating more than one locking mechanism in terms of having, you know, two independent locking mechanisms in one lock Also things like adding more pins to make it basically like you're picking two pin tumbler locks together Two or more So there's a lot. There's a wide variety of things that make a lock high-security But typically these are also locks that have been rated by different industries in the in America you have things like ANSI BHMA and UL underwriters laboratories who put these locks to the test and make sure that they are up to standard Overseas you have things like the BSI. I think it's the British Standards Institute and CEN that will rate these things in terms of their toughness So I can't talk about high-security locks without talking about medico Medico is kind of what I would consider the quintessential high-security lock and it is most people's entry point into high-security locks Now medico when you look at the key at first glance you might think it just looks like a regular key Regular pin tumbler lock, but if you look closer you can see that there's actually angles that those Pin cuts the the bidding is also angular and that's because on a medico lock Not only do the pins have to be raised to a certain height But they also have to be rotated to a certain angle to allow a secondary locking mechanism a sidebar to drop into place Now The pins there's a few different types of medicos, but the pins will generally look like this which is Let's see a bit different than you're used to At first glance it'll look like a normal pin, but then you'll see that it has that little slice in the side of it And what that is is that's the track that allows the sidebar to fall into and we call that a gate now some medico pins also have false gates and Let's see. I don't think this one does. Oh Yep, sure does. Okay, so on this one the false gate is right here. It's very shallow I don't know if you can see it But it actually runs the full length of the pin where in this one the true gate does not and that actually Prevents an attack by a tool called a medicoder So medico's got a few different types of locks. This is a medico classic and They will generally have the ul stamp on them And not a whole lot more on the face. Sometimes you'll see a 51s, but they have pretty wide open keyways There's not a Whole lot to these things on the front And then In the medico classic and also in the new ones you have Things like the large format interchangeable core where this core can be removed placed into another or actually replaced or placed into another lock And then you have the medico biaxial which is denoted by this little symbol right here Looks like a couple little crescents there and what that means is that the pins have been redesigned so This is a medico biaxial pin and at first glance it looks a lot like the standard medico classic pin But if you look a little bit closer at the bottom there, you'll see that that point isn't directly in the center So the chisel tip on this pin is slightly offset Which makes it what you call either a four or an aft pin and that means that the The cut in the key could either be a little closer a little further away It makes picking these and decoding them a bit more difficult and a lot more pins are involved in that process And as you can see this one even has a little ridge at the top there to make it so it gets stuck if you try to pick it They also in the top will have these mushroom pins sometimes Make it a little bit more difficult to pick Now medicos are all over the place You'll see them in government installations a lot of businesses use them This is a four pin medico that actually goes to a payphone and It looks a little bit different But you can see that key still has those angular cuts on it And this is a biaxial and you can tell you see that symbol right? That's the biaxial symbol right there so They also come in padlocks things like that See them everywhere. They're really neat locks. That's definitely a fun one to get started So they also make cam locks now when we're talking about high-security cam locks The security is definitely a little lower than your standard like door locks Padlocks things like that some of the padlocks actually have the cam lock style lock involved And these do have to be lifted and rotated But the cam locks do not have driver pins So the way they accomplish that and actually you can see this is a biaxial key. See these are close together and that one's far away So that's the couple fours and an aft pin in there So the cam locks work only by a sidebar But the pins are a little bit different. So instead of having that slot all the way down the length of the pin This pin here just has I can find it. There it is There we go. So it's just got a little hole in the side there So that makes it so that you have to raise it up and rotate it to where a finger sticking out of the sidebar We'll poke into that little hole Now there's a couple different styles of cam lock pins You have one that's got that just that big serration around it and one like this that has two smaller serrations or three And I can't tell you exactly where you'll find these in the specific locks. I just know that sometimes you find different ones So medico and the cam locks they have all sorts of format like this here It was a t-handle plug lock. So this one will actually go into a hole It'll block a t-handle key from reaching in there You also have the medico dura cam which is a dimple lock variant of that cam lock You know, this is the same thing. It's just turned on its side. The key is actually a lot stronger On these a lot harder to break So that medico design is awesome. But when you're talking about rotating pins, there's an even cooler lock out there This is called the Corbin M heart now these guys got sued out of existence by medico because of the The design and the similarities because these pins are rotated You can see that that in the key Actually, it's kind of hard to see there But trust me they do rotate and the reason these pins rotate is because unlike the medico This doesn't have a sidebar, but these pins actually interlock with each other So let me see if I can get this apart and I'll show you that There goes the spring. There's the spring So now these pins when they come out Are they gonna be stuck to each other? So they have a tongue and groove system Where the key or the pin on the top it's kind of like a dovetail Has a little tongue sticking out and the pin the keypin has a groove that that fits in and unless they're rotated to the proper position They cannot separate and that lock will never open. I Really wish these were still around still being made. These are awesome locks And there's a lot more information out there on them if you're interested Hey, so Here, let's show this one real quick. This is another way of doing high security a little different There's a little lower security. This is another one of those t-handle plug locks though This is a van lock and this is basically just a tubular lock That has very difficult It's very difficult to tension The face is basically just flat The key has these little pins that stick out of them These aren't super high security and that the plug is all brass the pins are steel, but the plug's all brass So it makes drilling a little bit easier, but Not super easy. These are usually used in like vending machines Anything that involves cash. They're not used as much as they used to but they're still pretty cool You're using gas pumps things like that so another one of the big names in high security that you'll see is Company called multi lock and multi lock is actually kind of a reinvention and a Continuance of the Rav Bariya Company in Israel Rav Bariya meaning multi bolt But the multi lock what they did is they took a standard pin tumbler lock and said hey Let's put pins inside those pins So if you look at this key here You can see that each one of those pins. This is a five pin pin in pins. That's ten total But if you look you have an outer pin and an inner pin So when picking this lock you have to use a much smaller dimple flag something that can get into those inner pins and pick them as well as setting the outer pins and Actually Thinned out a pick. Let's see here. So this is one of the picks that I use When picking multi locks they're setting inner pins. I use a pretty wide variety of Different picks for these things and that's one thing about high-security locks You'll definitely get into making a lot of picks Because you tend to not find all the tools that you need out there But so this is a standard multi lock classic Which is just the standard pin-in-pin format Where you have the the five pin-in-pins? And if you're interested in these they have been knocked off Bunch of companies make cheaper ones. This is a company called B tech or bold tech or I don't know the exact name But this is a five pin pin-in-pin, but there are no security pins all standard This is a very good entry way into picking multi locks, and this is I think was like 15 bucks but then multi lock wanted to innovate a bit further the patent on the classic expired and to extend the patent make it a little more difficult to copy the keys what they did is Involved what's called an interactive element. So this is the multi lock interactive and This right here is a Moveable element in the key that when you insert the key in the lock a Portion or a little dimple in the bottom of the lock will actually lift that up and set the pin higher than the shear line Now for key copying that's very it makes it a lot. They're very difficult a lot more difficult, but for picking. It's um Actually makes it a little easier because you always know that that second pin is going to be set higher than the shear line Well or at the shear line depending on the bidding Got another classic here, and these tend to have some pretty extreme bidding sometimes There's as low as you can get followed by some as highs you can get in the back But then multi lock does have an ultra high security variety. That's called the mt5 plus. We also have the mt5 Which is like this except no slider track, but what this is Is this takes the the five pin pin-in-pin design? Adds an interactive element as a sixth pin at the back here, and then it also has a slider track where five sliders Need to their unsprung five unsprung sliders need to be moved into place To allow this lock to open Actually looking at that it looks like four, but I'm pretty sure it's five So this is a very difficult lock to pick Something that maybe you will aspire to in the future so other companies Like Sergeant decided to instead of doing Multiple locking mechanisms in one They said why don't we just add a bunch more pins into this lock and put three pin tumbler locks all around each other so this lock here has a dimple lock and It's actually got three rows of pins To that come in at 90 degrees from the side here and one that comes in here directly at the top So you can see that key has bidding on all three sides, and it's actually got it on all sides because it's a reversible key This is called the queso and these are incredibly difficult to pick incredibly tight tolerances Very nice lock. This is it looks like a strange format, but this was actually their Answer to interchangeable cores. I don't have one of the standard quesos with me So then this this here is an actual queso queso became a brand I don't really know the history behind that, but if anyone feels like looking it up that can queso is part of the asa abla group. This is a 2000 s which means it has the omega element Which is a different type of interactive element down here so and also instead of or In addition to having bidding on all three sides of the key This has a spring-loaded pin in the tip of the key and what this does is it sets a pin inside the lock But then when you turn the key The pin actually pushes in here And if you don't have that spring-loaded feature there The lock won't open because that pin will get stuck on the side of the key won't be able to move in and it Will prevent the lock from opening Now these quesos the queso brand locks are actually a little bit easier to pick from the sergeant quesos Still not easy by any means though So when you're talking about Companies that put a lot of pins and things Let's see here. So there we go One of the companies that comes to that tends to come to mind is kaba kaba is not part of the asa abla group Asa abla tends to own like most of the companies out there anymore, but kaba is not part of that This is what's called a kaba 20 And this has the ability for 21 pins to be in this single lock here This one I think has let's see six six and four so it would have 18 16 So this one has 16 pins in it most of them have 18 17 16 something like that kaba tends to uh Remove pins for master keying. It's interesting But this lock here has four rows of pins. It has two rows coming in here at a 90 degree angle And then two rows coming up at a diagonal at each side there And those diagonal pins are actually very strange when you pick them. Um, they feel kind of pillowy. It's it's an interesting Feeling to pick them you got to get used to it So in terms of dimple locks, this is one that Kind of took a made kind of made a lock all their own um It's called a bannum and it's got two rows of pins But there are no driver pins in this lock And If you look at the key This key actually has holes in it And the reason for that Is that the way this lock works Is that the pins Actually oppose each other. This is one of the cores And you have a pin on this side and a pin on this side And they touch each other So when you move them this way the pin on this side sticks out into the bible When you move them this way the pin on this side sticks out into the bible So in picking this lock basically what you have to do is get in there and move all the pins so that none of them Are protruding out of the plug into the bible Even though they're all touching inside, which makes it very difficult to get a pick in between them You can kind of see there them sticking out into those chambers and then when they all Fall into the right spot. You can rotate the key Now these are generally just found in england. Um, you don't seem very much in the states Actually at all unless it's a collector But um, there it's a very expensive lock Very fun to pick actually But it's definitely something new to learn So this here is another part of the asa aboy group. This is Zeiss icon. This is a super cool lock This is the w s w w 10 Now what these guys have done is kind of What a lock that i'm going to show you in a little bit also did but they took sliders And integrated that in with a dimple lock so on this lock here You've got your six dimple pins that come in on the side of the key But then you've also got your slider tracks on the side So this lock has a total of 10 slider cuts on both sides And but there's actually only five to seven sliders in each of these But let's see if we can get this open This one's a little sticky. There we go So you've got your dimple pins up there on top and then you've got your sidebar here And all your sliders there on the bottom Now if you can see how that Nub is only sticking out on that side You could also have one that's on the other side And that makes things like master keying a lot more approachable Without having to add security vulnerabilities into the lock So you can have multiple sliders that have different pegs on either side That allows you to use the same key Now these sliders are incredibly difficult to pick They have six false gates and one true gate and those false gates are just absolutely tiny So it makes determining between them. Well, the true gate is also very tiny. So it makes Deciphering which one you're picking very difficult Get this guy back in his place here There we go And there are spool pins in the top of this I think there are three spool pins generally up in the top of the bible But the dimples are not the hard part to pick on this the side the sidebar definitely is now in terms of sliders the Company that generally comes to mind is eva They again are not a part of the asa abla group Eva does incredible work with slider locks They have a bunch of really neat ones out there this one here is called the eva 3ks And this has 12 sliders in it on Each key has three tracks on the side Those notches you see on the top are just a passive top bar for key control But each of these sliders Alternating inside has a different peg sticking out Some just have a singular peg that goes into that deep track And then others have parallel pegs that ride in those parallel tracks there These are all unsprung sliders Which the key basically traps them puts them in the right position and allows the key to rotate This is a strange format. This is a japanese mortise cylinder You can see here they have these little divots in the key and what that's for is all high security locks have to be key retaining So when you turn it Little pegs stick down into those divots and make it so that even in certain bitings they're kind of flat The key cannot be retracted unless the lock is locked Now what you see here is what's called a security card And many high security locks will come with these cards That makes it so that you cannot get your key copied unless you have the proper security card And this one i'm not really worried about because i'm not going to be using this so I can show you this But if you take this card into a locksmith, you can get the keys. I just showed you reproduced Sorry about huffing and puffing there. I'm kind of leaning over a desk here But I have some whiskey and catch my breath real quick now. This is not a super high security lock But I wanted to show it anyway because it's really neat It's got eight sliders in it four on either side each one of them has a sidebar different on each side And for some reason for the life of me I cannot get this thing open And I swear it doesn't have false gates I've only taken a couple of the sliders out, but I just get a really deep false set and it will not open up I don't know why but uh, this is called a tray lock and I got this on ebay for I think 20 bucks or something like that But great little lock tons of fun to play with If you're just getting started, I wouldn't necessarily recommend going after this one, but If you do more power to you Now this is another pure slider lock. Let me see if I can find it here. There we go Um, kind of like the eva 3k s it is springless. It doesn't have any springs in it This is called the asa desmo. This is obviously part of the asa abla group um, now what the desmo is is asa um They make cam locks. They do padlocks. They have I think some oval cylinders But this is meant for To basically to use where it's going to get a lot of use maybe some dirt Not a lot of maintenance It's supposed to be a very low maintenance lock I found that a lot of these will actually jam up over time. It makes it really hard to turn the key I haven't figured out why But I'm hoping they fixed it in the new desmo plus But I'm not completely sure about that Now this one here is an eight slider desmo This has four sliders on either side that have a sidebar on both sides interacting Each slider has two false gates and one true gate That are exactly the same width just a different depth makes it a bit difficult to judge between them These come in six and eight slider variants So we have a six slider desmo here This actually doesn't have anything in it. So I can just pop it apart and show you Now these also if you look at that key you might notice that cut out And that is your key retaining feature on these guys So when you put the key in and turn it a lot like the 3ks This has little t-pins that push in and trap that key in there. So you can't remove it When the lock is open So this is the desmo sidebar here I'm gonna get one out So it's just got that little teeny shelf there That fits into the side Of these pins That there is a desmo pin And you see it's got the two false gates and the one true gate And that sidebar slides into that true gate And that allows it to retract These are the t-pins and springs that I talked about that actually go in and trap the key in place So you can see a couple in there that the springs are wrapped around the spring goes inside the t-pin And that's also what pushes the sidebar back You can see that's where it goes right there in the sidebar channel So assa The desmo is kind of like the sidebar to the assa twin this was assas Not their first step into high security But definitely their first step into ultra high security The assa twin was I think the first patent Maybe not the first but the first sidebar patent by bow bow widen or bova den depending on where you are how you pronounce things He also I think is responsible for the patent On that w s w w ten. I showed you a few minutes ago So the assa twin basically what they did here Is they took a standard pin tumbler lock And then put a slider lock on the side Now this is kind of like the pins are kind of like the desmo Except without this part here you just have That there except it extends this way So you have two false gates on either side of the true gate And the bidding is actually on the sidebar itself So the shelves in the sidebar will be at different heights depending on the bidding of the key Um, this one has the original gin bottle shaped spools Which is definitely one of I would say the hardest locks to pick I've ever encountered Um, this is an incredible lock and definitely something to aspire to They also generally have pretty insane bidding also So the assa twins been upgraded a few times the patent expired and they Put out different features. There's one called the v ten that has the same Ideas as the w s w to where it'll have a peg on one side or the other And you have ten tracks that can raise them to different levels And the last rendition is this here. Well, actually not the last I think the dp is the last but This is the assa twin combi Now what this is is basically the same deal Except the sidebar pins not only do they have to be lifted for the finger pins on the sidebar But they also have to be rotated to the correct position So this lock here is kind of like having a six pin assa with a medico on the side Um, these are incredibly difficult to pick I've never actually gotten a combi open yet One of the few locks that I have that I've not been able to get open Um, these things are incredible. It's an amazing work of Mechanics I'm very impressed with the way they did this This here is just a double Euro of the combi So another example of their incredible bidding And you can see those sidebar are kind of sweeping They're not directly up and down to set just vertical height But they also kind of sweep to set those horizontally also Rotationally, I should say Now while I'm showing assa Um I guess I'll show this guy here. This has an assa core in it This is what's called a mobile cylinder. These are used in prisons Um, as you can see it is much bigger than your standard mortise cylinder And obviously that'll make it a lot tougher These are made of I think case hardened steel. It might be full hardened steel I'm not completely sure about that But this is actually replacing another lock that was basically just a beefed up mortise cylinder This big but just five standard pens and some couple spools things like that But this incorporates that assa twin. It's the assa twin 6000 This is the 851 keyway Um, but it puts the assa twin 6000 into that gigantic form factor for prisons And while I'm showing you that, um prisons also use lever locks This is a lever lock key from a prison Um, I don't have a lock to show you unfortunately, but I don't know why but everything in a prison is bigger. Um, well, I do know why it's to Make them a lot tougher, but I think these are pretty cool. I'd like to get one of these soon so I guess Schlagg wanted to be part of the party With the assa twin so they went ahead and created the primus Um, now this is not Nearly as difficult to pick as the assa twin line, but it's the same concept So you have Basically a Schlagg lock with a medico on the side Same deal as the combi Where you have those sweeping Sidebar fingers that need to be lifted and rotated to the same height or not to the same height to different heights. I'm sorry Um, but this is Schlagg's entry into the high security game These are incredibly neat. Um, I actually had to make a pick and actually while I'm at it Let me show you these real quick So this is my assa twin combi pick One of the ones I use I don't know if you can see that all that well, but So you can see that little u shape in there And that's to actually hook into and lift up those finger pins and also be able to rotate them So I think this is the one I used for the Primus oh no actually It was this one. I'm sorry Goes the other direction um But if you get into high security locks, you'll definitely end up making a lot of your own tools like I said earlier Um, but this here is my premise pick for the sidebar pins I didn't show this earlier. So another lock that uh Decided to take high pin counts and take it to the extreme This is the mower crypto um Looks a little weird because I happened to Brick it while I was trying to take it apart at one point, but I will fix that eventually This actually has 18 standard pins or 18 pins. It's got six on the side six so here We got six coming down from here Six coming up from here and then another six going in this way at the corner Um, these pins are very tightly packed in there It's really hard to get in there with any tool To uh to pick them individually without over-setting others Um, this is a super neat lock But another incredibly difficult one But that's more in tune with the cabas things like that So the Australians When they got into high security They decided to create this guy here It's called the by lock So instead of saying let's just take one key and put a bunch of pins on it They said hey, let's put two locks side by side So you can see this looks like literally two keys just glued together Um, there's different bidding on either side And this is not a standard pin tumbler both What this is Is it's more like that medico cam lock to where you have 12 pins And they're lifted but they uh, there's things in there that prevent them from rotating But they do have a hole in the side and that sidebar Or both the sidebars have little fingers that stick out and stick into the holes in the side of those pins Um, they will have false skates false notches false whatever you want to call it and true Um, it doesn't like to I'll fix that but uh basically it um Is two locks two medico locks side by side just without the rotation And oh, I guess here. Let me I forgot that I can just take this guy apart for you Here we go So there are our sidebars and that is kind of what the pins look like there They have that point but unlike the medico these aren't angled with these sidebars out. There we go The sidebars got those fingers that stick out of it Which sticks into the holes in the sides of the pins Definitely a neat idea. Let's get this guy back together there. Oh, that's right another thing I wanted to mention about this since it's not a standard pin tumbler um By locks don't have to worry about max so You can see here This goes from the lowest possible to the highest possible to the lowest possible to the highest possible lowest possible Highest possible so, um There's no maximum adjacent cut specification for these So trying to get your pick under that lowest possible to pick that highest is incredibly difficult There are a couple other high security cam locks that I don't consider very high security But they're still kind of neat and kind of an entry level into high security This guy here is called a bell lock. This is actually what they use in parking meters I can pop this apart for you real quick So this guy basically is like a split wafer lock Where you have Half wafers that pick up and down in different directions And they basically fit into these channels here, but this is more like a wafer lock Um Not very easy to pick But not incredibly hard either Definitely a fun one to get started And then another high security wafer lock here This is called the chicago duo So what they did here is they took your standard wafer lock that has cutting on the top and the bottom And they added a side track here that sets four more wafers So this thing I think has like 14 wafers in it Maybe a couple more. I think it's 14 And it's also got profile wafers. There's a lot going on in there It's pretty difficult to figure out where you're at, but it's not the hardest thing in the world Pretty neat lock though. All right, so this guy here another high security lock This is not very high security in terms of picking Although it's not easy to pick It only has three rotating discs inside of it But This is definitely made to withstand the elements and be incredibly beefy This is called the sergeant and greenleaf environmental padlock So it's originally designed for the railroads Who had problems with their locks freezing up and seizing because of dirt and grime And also had a lot of vandalism So they reached out to the sergeant and greenleaf company who designed this lock for them And these are pretty cool. They're kind of antique So if you find one, I'd suggest Holding on to it and if you can get one with a key, that's even better But the military also used these for some of their warehouses and other things like that Now in terms of disc detainer locks Abloy is definitely going to be your quintessential high security disc detainer lock And I'll show you those in a second, but you've got a couple other contenders here This is a company called takijin or takigan And I'll be showing you another one of their locks in a few minutes It's a company out of japan that makes manufacturing parts industrial parts all sorts of stuff This is their disc detainer lock. This is their actually lower security variety But they have higher security ones, but this is not going to look like your standard disc detainer key And that thin curved keyway Makes it so that all of your standard stored viable disc detainer locks don't fit You got to make your own And disc detainer locks is definitely going to be Where you're making your own tools more than anything else I've had to make all of those to pick different locks each one of them was designed for a specific lock This one was for the takigan This is actually for an anchor last This guy right here This is your security card for the anchor last And this is one of the very few disc detainer locks you'll find that only has bidding on one side of the key And you have to put this key in a very specific way. It'll only go in one way And then you rotate all those discs to the right spot and it'll open right up, but Like I mentioned before The quintessential high security disc detainer lock is going to be your abloy This is the abloy classic It's got a half moon looking key That again has bidding only on one side of the key Which means the key can only go in one way, but that's obvious by the half moon there And same deal When you rotate the key, it's got to rotate a full 90 degrees to set all the discs into place And then rotate the rest of the way Now this is the abloy classic basically their lowest security lock They've got a ton of other ones This is the disc lock pro Which has bidding on both sides of the key Which allows you to actually turn this either way and it's got a few other features in there that allow that to happen Most of them will just be reversible so you can open it by putting it in either way But this also has a disc locking system the little ball there It's actually a ball bearing or little divot there is a ball bearing inside of there that will not allow any of these discs to turn Until that ball bearing has been depressed That is an anti-pick feature And also it makes it so that you can't damage it by rotating some discs out of order and things like that Abloy has even higher security varieties like the protec one protec two things like that but um I don't have examples of those unfortunately All right, so this is the other Taki again lock that I wanted to show you Next couple locks i'm going to show our uh, japanese high security locks And the japanese kind of tend to go all out on their high security locks. They go pretty crazy um And they're really cool locks generally So this is um, I don't know the name of this to be honest It comes out of a piece of equipment that I work on It is a parking in lane pay station um So this basically protects cash and credit card data and things like that But this kind of Takes high security to another level um This thing is both high security in that It is very hard to pick. Um, I think this is an 11 pin Yeah, it's an 11 pin lock where You can see in there. Yeah So there are five or six I think it's five pins coming in from the Left side And then another six coming in from the top right at a 45 degree angle And they kind of intersect like this. So It's incredibly difficult to to get in there and pick pins without over setting other ones Not only that but you have to get tools in here and as I'll demonstrate with these tweezers. It's a little big Um, actually you can do it a little better with a pick So trying to get a pick in there to actually pick this thing. You have to make specialty tools to get in there But not only is it difficult to pick, but it's also very physically secure Um, this thing is made out of some pretty hefty materials Let's see. So it's got this gigantic cam on the back Um, and not only do you have to defeat one but you actually have to defeat two of these So you got one on the top and one on the bottom But this is actually one of my favorite locks in my collection. I love this thing It's a hell of a challenge All right. So another japanese high security lock company is uh miwa And miwa makes some really awesome locks. One thing I haven't talked about yet is magnetic locks So this is a miwa magnetic lock that actually goes to the sega arcade cabinets the old sega arcade cabinets They call them a candy cabinet um, and this is This is actually a kind of a dumbed-down version of the miwa 3800 Which has dimple pins up top and then four magnetic sliders internally This one only has three magnetic sliders uh two that come from the left and one that comes from the right And they're stepped. So you have to pick each one of them a couple times Um, definitely not an easy task. You need a magnetic pick and basically you pick this thing by sound So you got to listen to what pins are binding which ones are not you attack the the one that's not bind or that's binding and make it jiggle And that's actually how you pick most of these locks is by doing what's called the jiggle test Um, actually, let me show you here what this does most sidebar um So when picking a lot of these locks if they have multiple locking mechanisms in them, you can tend you can usually isolate so With the medico, um, and medico is one of the few ones that you can actually choose what binds first With the medico if you tension it clockwise the, uh Driver pins will bind first and if you tension it counterclockwise the sidebar will bind first So you tension it clockwise pick all the top pins to shear And then the sidebar will engage and then you worry about rotation of the pins And whenever you're dealing with a sidebar with gates something that doesn't involve driver pins You're going to do what's called the jiggle test so you're going to go through the lock and set these to Whether either a false gate or a true gate And then you're going to tap each one with your pick and see if it jiggles Because if you see there's barely any room, but there's just enough room for this thing to move around a little bit So when you tap it with your pick, you'll actually feel it jiggle So when you're binding in a false gate, eventually that will stop any rotation or any jiggle Because you're putting pressure on it, but when you get to the true gate, it will always jiggle in the true gate So that's actually how we pick the majority of these locks is by what's called the jiggle test Um, so let me show you here another lock from miwa. This is a really cool lock. Um, this is the miwa pr and this is actually Rotating wafers in there. It looks like a regular dimple lock, but it's not there are wafers that are pivoted on a on a shared hinge on the top And they're like crescent shaped and they pivot and the sidebar and the gates are in the bottom So the sidebar pushes in it pivots till it hits the right gate and the sidebar drops in Um, now these have 10 and 11 wafers depending on if they're master keyed or not And they also have false gates and serrations on those wafers that make them It just gives you a lot of different feedback in there. So trying to find yourself into a true gate Not the easiest thing in the world, but it's definitely doable Also that keyway definitely restricts your movement in there So you got to find a pick that pretty perfectly fits Under certain uh under the wafers without over setting them because if you look right here See there's three dimples right here, but there's actually four wafers right there So that spot there is a max lift wafer So that's got to go all the way to the top And then this one here is almost a zero lift wafer So you got to get underneath that one and set that one as high as it can possibly go So there's a lot of uh difficult navigation you got to do in this thing Makes picking these very interesting, but There are tons of fun. Miwa makes actually a few locks on this rotating wafer design the uh the U9 is one that The key looks different. It actually looks more like an Ingersoll key where it doesn't have dimples It's actually got cuts on the key on both sides But yeah, so uh the Japanese makes some crazy crazy high security locks So now you can have high security lever locks as well and In safe deposit boxes instead of saying hey, let's put two locks into one They literally said hey, let's take two locks and put them into one So this here is a sergeant and green leaf version. This is the 4 4 4 0 44 40 This is a sergeant and green leaf safe deposit lock This here is the mower or not mower mosler 5700 safe deposit box lock Now this is what's called a dual custody lock Where two people will need to have a key And this is what's called the guard key and this is the user key So you have to insert the guard key first To activate the user key And this one actually doesn't turn all the way into like turn the guard key a little more. There we go So basically what this allows the bank to do Is when you come in they'll put in their guard key Turn it you then put in your user key turn it they can then remove their guard key And leave you to do your thing and then when you're ready to go you relock it with your user key And get out of there So those are just standard lever locks. They generally have false gates, but some of them don't Actually, I think that mosler has serrations That the the fence and the gate fit into so you'll have a serrated fence And it'll lock into serrations when you try to move it into place So other high security lever locks What I'm a little bit more familiar with are here. These are payphone locks So This here is the western electric 29a This is a five lever lock That protects the electronics portion of the payphone And you see that split in the key there and what that is is a blocking plate That sits in between the three levers in the back and the two in the front Which makes it very difficult to get to those back levers Not the hardest thing to pick, but you definitely got to get used to it and get your uh your technique down to get that open This here is northern electric. It's a canadian company The coin vault lock for theirs, which is actually pretty familiar pretty similar to the 29 Where it's got a divider in there But this one the actuator is separated from the plug So when you turn the plug The actuator doesn't turn until the plug is about here And then by the time you get a pick in there you get stuck because I'll do another video on this in in the future But it's very difficult to get into Now this is one of my favorite locks in the world and One of the reasons for that is because I am the only person In history to pick this lock on video or actually to pick this lock In any sort of documented fashion um I'm going to be doing a video on this lock only Also for def con which will air tomorrow Uh tomorrow night at I think six. I'm sorry if I get that wrong, but I think it's six o'clock tomorrow night um And this is the western electric 30c So this lock until I picked it was considered unpickable and unpicked Um, basically what this lock has is Not only does it have eight levers all with false gates But it also has a blocker mechanism That when you turn the key to this point that blocker mechanism moves in and locks all the levers in place Before the fence ever gets to the gates So when trying to pick locks generally what you do is put tension on them Which will bind something up So then you can then move them and find where they need to be But this one before anything binds they're all locked into place So I had to figure out a very special way of picking this And I did and actually you'll probably be underwhelmed when you figure out what I did but um If you feel like checking it out, it'll be on tomorrow But uh, but yeah, so that's that's about it. Um High security locks are kind of my passion if you couldn't tell I love everything about them. Um, I do have a youtube channel. It is Very difficult to find it is just a nothing simple But if you Look on youtube and search western electric 30c You will find it If you want to look at any of these any closer I have most of the locks I showed you today um on that channel And uh picking them taking them apart talking about them things like that But anyway, I hope you all enjoyed that. Um Sorry if it was a bit rusty and rough at first, but uh is what it is Hey, I appreciate you all take care. Stay safe. Thank you very much