Most Impressive: A Guide to Key Impressioning Attacks

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Physical access trumps digital access and we’ve all seen lockpicking explained at several security venues. You might even have tried it yourself. But what if you need to open a lock a number of times? Wouldn’t it be great to have an opening technique that would supply you with a working key in the process?

A method to do this has existed for quite some time, but until recently it has remained quite unknown. Some time ago impressioning locks got “re-invented” by the lockpick community and the skill evolved to the level now shown at several international championships.

Unlike lockpicking, impressioning creates a fully working key for the lock which can be used to lock and unlock the cylinder at will. With practice, this technique can consistently open a lock in 10-15 minutes (and potentially faster)!

What is it? How does it work? What skill is involved? Why is it the most interesting way to open a lock? These questions, and more will be answered in this talk. With this technique (and a bit of training) several of your defence layers might turn out to be not as effective as you previously thought…

CONFERENCE
Location: Track 2 Date: April 13, 2017 Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Jos Weyers