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Some great information on the innards of this lock can be found at http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/security-corner/physical-security-master-lock-1500i

• chinpokomon 14y ago
  Very interesting... I had seen this lock before, but I wasn't sure how secure it'd be. Playing with the simulator (http://toool.nl/images/e/e1/MhVisualizer_V2.0_p.swf http://toool.nl/images/e/e1/MhVisualizer_V2.0_p.swf), found in a link on the website bewoody provided, I'm still not sure I'd want to trust this to anything I truly value. For example, UDL is the equivalent of LDL, and UDLR is the equivalent of LLR... but by extension it is also equivalent of LDLR. There are 5 positions for each of 4 tumblers, but not every tumbler position is valid, so the total number of combinations must be far less than 5^4. I know that the dial combination locks have a reverse combination as well, and that the total number of tick marks is actually greater than the number of valid positions for the dial, but this whole system reminds me a bit of a game of lights out.