Generating an Encryption Key Without A Pass Phrase — Meet ECIES
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2 min readAug 8, 2018
Many encryption systems are compromised because they generate their encryption key using a passphrase, and which can considerably reduce the overall security infrastructure. A passphrase which is taken from a standard dictionary, for example, might reduce the key strength from 256 bits to just 20 bits (for a list of around one million words).
