Also known as SAM Lock Tool
thumbnail|Screenshot of the Syskey utility on the Windows 8.1 operating system requesting the user to enter a password
thumbnail|Screenshot of the Syskey utility on the Windows 8.1 operating system requesting the user to enter a password
The SAM Lock Tool, better known as Syskey (the name of its executable file), is a discontinued component of Windows NT that encrypts the Security Account Manager (SAM) database using a 128-bit RC4 encryption key.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).