Hi, made two pictures of the padlock with the backdoor:
http://www.danisch.de/tmp/pict0951x.jpg shows the TSA keywhole: Just a very simple standard key cylinder, pretty easy to produce a general key from any lock. But that's waste of time. The lock suffers from the same weakness almost all locks of this kind do: You don't need any key or code to open them: See http://www.danisch.de/tmp/pict0954x.jpg The 'secret' code is still 000. When you turn the wheels for exactly 180 degree (thus the 5 is up on the rightmost wheel), you can see that chamfer of the axis on the left side of the rightmost wheel. It is visible, but must point down to open. Turn the wheels until you see this, and then turn them another 180 degrees, and: "Open Sesame!" So no need to bother with a TSA key. Open it directly. regards Hadmut --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]