Quote from: scooter on August 11, 2013, 06:23:06 AM

Quote from: Dabs on August 11, 2013, 05:50:56 AM

Quote from: scooter on August 10, 2013, 12:42:07 AM

I would avoid backing up encrypted bitcoins to cloud storage considering it has been revealed that if the NSA finds you have encrypted files they can keep them as long as they want because they assume you are hiding something from them.

They will crack your 30+ character password in, maybe 300 years. Probably a lot more. Or let's be optimistic and they get to crack it 10 times faster. 30 years. Or even 100 times faster. 3 years.

Let them keep encrypted files as long as they want. They will not have access to it in the time frame they need.

More than enough time for you to make a new wallet and transfer your coins to the new wallet.

That entirely depends on what passphrase is used.
A 30 character password composed of dictionary words with a few numbers can be quite weak.

I always use randomly generated passwords, of the type that alternates letters and numbers. Sometimes symbols.

Here are a dozen examples which I just generated now, which I will never use:

Code:

riIrZrXOIkftU1h96awI8tKvJfcapiE
lBLw1JVOyd9Q5PLNYtfOhSNZsZryamt
y9IsUXORQKJcfOnovxEHnKHRfPmOGQ3
mf9a3E74COT0pAS26rAAUZizjkOwZpQ
vl5lsuN79xWWTRYF8Z1GhiFOYyvqtBK
u22rkgVAl9yxgZOKPB3dHTPjThV0twx
vpGeYMC1fmcA8AkFQEcALdkXY10iEsG
hjmAmli0Us8sLKHcZdm5dA2gbwTXjYs
fbzyClE8xcLcCnsF8sK4xwfTt9Hl7Sz
bVjmy7sDf7ClLKQierC4ghuTECR81C2
dcgUlUl5pHogjSxi24XDmTpKcCqagBe
dIRcNj242AByr6pBM2NQnZC0tUdl3UY