What's a decipher code?

[ltdbjd]

Anybody know what the term "decipher code" means?

I'm going through our policy at work in order make it readable, applicable, and modern, and it says, " [The locksmith] will distribute keys, decipher codes and locking devices to issue points ...." My comment on this was, "What’s a decipher code? How do I distribute one? I can’t find a definition anywhere. The closest I can come with a Google search is a keyword cipher used to decipher a secret message. It's not listed in the ALOA Locksmith Dictionary, and I've never heard of this before. Kind of like, “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.” Secret decoder rings didn’t work for Ralphie, probably won’t work here. Is it supposed to mean an electronic door code? A blind code? If it's either a door code or blind code, we don't distribute these. I'm thinking we should remove any reference to "decipher code" unless we can positively ID was it is."

[Squelchtone]

Anybody know what the term "decipher code" means?

I'm going through our policy at work in order make it readable, applicable, and modern, and it says, " [The locksmith] will distribute keys, decipher codes and locking devices to issue points ...." My comment on this was, "What’s a decipher code? How do I distribute one? I can’t find a definition anywhere. The closest I can come with a Google search is a keyword cipher used to decipher a secret message. It's not listed in the ALOA Locksmith Dictionary, and I've never heard of this before. Kind of like, “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.” Secret decoder rings didn’t work for Ralphie, probably won’t work here. Is it supposed to mean an electronic door code? A blind code? If it's either a door code or blind code, we don't distribute these. I'm thinking we should remove any reference to "decipher code" unless we can positively ID was it is."

I think you are reading is as the locksmith will distribute keys, the locksmith will distribute decipher codes, but the sentence is saying that you will as part of your job decipher or decode codes, perhaps indirect codes stamped on keys that decipher into the direct bitting using code software or code books?

that's what it reads like to me
Squelchtone

[jeffmoss26]

agreed with Sq.

[spandexwarrior]

My guess is that it has something to do with codes (combinations) for Cipher Locks. That's both a brand and a generic term for electronic or push button locks that I've heard used frequently.

-Brian

[tjohn]

probably is just a vague reference meaning codes for push button type locks like Trilogies, Simplex, etc

[ltdbjd]

I can see how you'd get that from the reading, but it's used as a noun in about a dozen places in he policy doesn't cover hardware, so it's not a type of lock. Can't really be a blind key code, because the boneheads before me changed all the indirect codes to direct codes, "because it was easier." Why not use an SC1 keyway with a direct code stamped on it in a maximum security prison? I've since changed that, and added a new section in the policy that requires blind codes.

Even in the job interview, they asked what a decipher code was. I said I had no idea, but guessed it had something to do with blind and direct codes. Of course, they asked what a code book was too. "Um, something locksmiths used before computers were invented."

I'm no going to sweat it. I'll just tell them to remove it until whoever wrote the policy in the first place can tell me what it is. Unfortunately, there were other things in there that I had never heard of before.

The guy that was there before me and probably had a hand in writing it was never a locksmith. He worked in the motor pool. When the first locksmith left after the place was built for medical reasons a couple years into the job, motor pool guy wanted the job, so they let him have it. So that was 6 or 7 years of a non-locksmith with no locksmith training driving the place into the ground. I'm not to shocked by stuff that doesn't make sense finding its way into policy.

[tjohn]

they probably mean 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42