Tuta survey results: Only half of users use sufficiently long passwords.

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t Tuta we focus on keeping our users' data safe with hack-proof encryption. To achieve maximum security, the importance of strong, secure and sufficiently long passwords cannot be overstated. Passwords are the first line of defense to ensure that no unauthorized access can harm your data or yourself. While factors such as complexity and unpredictability are important, experts insist that length is a critical element in ensuring password security. But do people today know the perfect password length?

What security experts say
Cybersecurity experts consistently advocate for longer communication email list passwords as a key component of strong security. “Password length significantly increases the time and computational resources required to crack a password,” says Bruce Schneier, a renowned cryptographer and security expert. “A longer password exponentially increases the difficulty for brute-force attacks, making it a crucial aspect of password strength.”

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has previously recommended a minimum length of 12 characters for strong passwords, noting that the optimal minimum password length is between 14 and 16 characters and that longer passwords are better and more resilient to modern cracking techniques, including advanced targeted attacks, for example by state actors or secret services, capable of using powerful hardware or even quantum computing. With increasing computing power, passwords also need to increase in length to resist attacks .



Conclusions from the survey of Tuta Mail users
At Tuta Mail we focus on the most advanced security and have already integrated quantum-safe encryption into our email and calendar services . At Tuta, the user's private key is secured with their password, so choosing a long and strong password is even more important. That's why we conducted a survey among 2,500 users to better understand people's knowledge of password security.