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.
This key has the ability to encrypt and decrypt the data. With asymmetric encryption such as Diffie-Hellman and RSA, a pair of keys is created and assigned: a private key and a public key. The public key can be known by anyone and used to encrypt data that will be sent to the owner. Once the message is encrypted, it can only be decrypted by the owner of the private key. Asymmetric encryption is said to be somewhat more secure than symmetric encryption as the private key is not to be shared.