Lake County has average temperatures ranging from the low 30's in the winter to the high 90's to low 100's in the summer. An average humidity of 50% in the winter and 30% in the summer which means virtually none of that famous California fog.
They are lever locks, with between 6 and 12 levers. They are double bitted and asymmetric, so the lock essentially has two different sets of levers. In addition, they are mostly quadruple throw, so you need to pass 4 sets of levers. The bolt work has 2 or 4 hardened steel circular bolts, providing good saw resistance.
TripleDES key sizes - .NET vs Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not say TripleDES supports 56 bit keys. The keying options talk about triple-length keys and double-length keys, the latter reduces the key size to 112 bits. The effective key size for the original DES is 56 bit. Such a key is constructed from 64 bit input though, where 8 bits remain unused. The triple-length key option thus works with a three times 56 bit (=168) constructed from three times 64 bit (=192 bit) and the double-length option works with two times 56 bit keys (=112) constructed from two times 64 bit (=128).