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  • Abloy Protek and other rotating disc based locks, as well as magnetic encoding (EVVA MCS), sliders (EVVA 3KS) or driverless pins (BiLock) are all unaffected.

    How about the Kryptonite locks? (The fahg?)

  • I believe that the Kryptonite uses a disc based approach, so should be fine from that style of attack.

    To be fair, bump keys have been known about forever. The only thing that has changed is that making the blanks to bump has become a lot easier and cheaper, even for shapes that were hard to mill.

    Locks can be made to be bump secure, this is really just an underline that if you're using a padlock or lock with a traditional style key... it's getting easier and cheaper to beat those.

    But there are alternatives that remain pretty hard to pick, bump, etc.

  • The traditional or restricted type of key doesn't relate directly to the bump/anti-bump issue. That is down to the internal design of the cylinder and how the pins are machined, etc. Hence, you can have a simple, non-restricted key profile in a cylinder that is still anti-bump. Restricted profile keys are really there to make it harder to pick, and are a separate/independent defence against attack. Having both anti-bump and a restricted profile is good if you want to keep stuff safe.

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