Encryption - length of the password

Zhup     Jun 13 3:48AM 2017 GUI

Hello,

What is the length of the password you recommend? Are the keys generated based on this password?


gchen    Jun 13 7:03AM 2017

A password of 12 characters with both upper and lower case should be good enough, I think. Yes, the password is used to generate the master key, which in turn is used to encrypt/decrypt the config file stored in the storage.


whereisaaron    Aug 3 10:58PM 2017

I think the master keys are 256 bit?

If so then you can at least says that there is no point in a >256 bit password. So no point in more that ~40 characters for the encryption password.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking#Time_needed_for_password_searches