{"id":572006,"date":"2023-01-21T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/?p=572006"},"modified":"2023-01-20T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:39:50","slug":"all-your-keys-are-belong-to-keydecoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/01\/21\/all-your-keys-are-belong-to-keydecoder\/","title":{"rendered":"All Your Keys Are Belong to KeyDecoder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physical security is often considered simpler than digital security since safes are heavy and physical keys take more effort to duplicate than those of the digital persuasion. [Maxime Beasse and Quentin Clement] have developed a smartphone app that can <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MaximeBeasse\/KeyDecoder\" target=\"_blank\">duplicate a key from a photo<\/a> making key copying much easier.<\/p>\n<p>KeyDecoder is an open source Android app that can generate all the necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitting_(key)\" target=\"_blank\">bitting info<\/a> to duplicate a key from just an image. Luckily for the paranoid among us, the image must be taken with the key laying flat without a keyring on an ISO\/CEI 7810 ID-1 ID or credit card. A passerby can&#8217;t just snap a photo of your keys across the room and go liberate your home furnishings, but it still would be wise to keep a closer eye on your keys now that this particular <del>cat<\/del> hack is out of the bag.<\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s GitHub page is awash in warnings that this tool is designed solely for &#8220;pentesters and security enthusiasts&#8221; to warn their friends and clients about the dangers of leaving their keys exposed. After learning about this tool, we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if some in the audience start rethinking how they carry and store their physical keys from now on.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see some more hacks to duplicate keys, checkout <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/09\/24\/copying-high-security-keys-with-openscad-and-light\/\">Copying High Security Keys With OpenSCAD And Light<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2008\/07\/24\/hope-2008-methods-of-copying-high-security-keys\/\">Methods Of Copying High Security Keys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical security is often considered simpler than digital security since safes are heavy and physical keys take more effort to duplicate than those of the digital persuasion. [Maxime Beasse and <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2023\/01\/21\/all-your-keys-are-belong-to-keydecoder\/\" class=\"read-more\">&hellip;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149446880,"featured_media":572008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20732807,10969111],"tags":[422592094,37799,422592092,422592093,224855,801],"class_list":["post-572006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lockpicking-hacks","category-security-hacks","tag-house-key","tag-key","tag-keydecoder","tag-physical-key","tag-physical-security","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/card_key.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBn4l-2oNU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149446880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572006"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572306,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572006\/revisions\/572306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}