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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by emilfihlman on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:59AM (#20294386)
Yup, that's the general idea I also had in mind.

Those "try all n in shortest combination" sequences are called De Bruijn sequences in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence

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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by Ductapemaster on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:17PM (#20297057)
These codes have been used to break wireless garage door openers in comically little time: https://samy.pl/opensesame/
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