MIT Guide to Lock Picking by Ted the Tool - HTML preview

Chapters

3

and

5

present

mo dels

whic

h

will

help

you

understand

a

lo

c

k's

resp onse

to

pic

king.

Figure

2.1

in

tro duces

the

vocabulary

of

real

lo

c

ks.

The

key

is

inserted

into

the

keyway

of

the

plug.

The

protrusions

on

the

side

of

the

k

eyw

a

y

are

called

war

ds.

W

ards

restrict

the

set

of

keys

that

can

b

e

inserted

in

to

the

plug.

The

plug

is

a

cylinder

which

can

rotate

when

the

prop

er

key

is

fully

inserted.

The

non-rotating