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It looks like the writers of CBS's Numb3rs were inspired by SneaKey...check it out above. |
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| Our SNEAKEY system correctly decoded the keys shown in the above image that was taken from the rooftop of a four floor building. The inlay shows the image that was used for decoding while the background provides a context for the extreme distances that our system can operate from. In this case the image was taken from 195 feet. This demonstration shows that a motivated attacker can covertly steal a victim's keys without fear of detection. The SNEAKEY system provides a compelling example of how digital computing techniques can breach the security of even physical analog systems in the real-world. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Abstract The access control provided by a physical lock is based on the assumption that the information content of the corresponding key is private --- that duplication should require either possession of the key or a priori knowledge of how it was cut. However, the ever-increasing capabilities and prevalence of digital imaging technologies present a fundamental challenge to this privacy assumption. Using modest imaging equipment and standard computer vision algorithms, we demonstrate the effectiveness of physical key teleduplication --- extracting a key's complete and precise bitting code at a distance via optical decoding and then cutting precise duplicates. We describe our prototype system, Sneakey, and evaluate its effectiveness, in both laboratory and real-world settings, using the most popular residential key types in the U.S. |
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Citation Benjamin Laxton, Kai Wang, and Stefan Savage Reconsidering Physical Key Secrecy: Teleduplication via Optical Decoding. ACM CCS 2008, Alexandria, VA, October 2008. Paper Paper pdf. Code The code for this project was developed in Matlab. If there is sufficient interest I may release it in the future. |
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