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The Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA) has published a new standard for high-security cylinders which changes how they are defined.

The new standard, which is the culmination of a long effort by BHMA member companies, "establishes meaningful tests and performance criteria for high-security cylinder lock systems," BHMA Standards Coordinator Mike Tierney says.

The ANSI/BHMA A156.30-2003 American National Standard for High Security Cylinders is a 16-page document with a three-page appendix and includes more than 28 definitions of terms relating to cylinders, keys, credentials and input/output. It also includes security performance requirements for both mechanical and electrified high-security cylinders.

ANSI/BHMA also specifies a series of destructive tests and surreptitious entry-resistance tests (ie non-destructive tests) that measure the security performance of cylinders and defines new standards for key control.

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