128-Bit AES Encryption
Your files are securely transmitted, stored and retrieved using government-level AES ecryption. NIST
determined that AES is secure enough to protect U.S. Government classified information up to the TOP SECRET level.
If someone were to somehow intercept your data during a backup or restore, or gain access to our servers (which, of course,
has never happened), it still take multiple supercomputers decades to decipher any of your data.
We DO NOT have access to your personalized encryption key, only you do.
Most backup companies keep their clients' keys on file, and thus have access to all your confidential
files.
Advantages of encrypted backups
- It would be far easier for someone to steal your local backups (tape,
CD-DVD, Zip/Jaz) than to intercept and decrypt your encrypted offsite data.
- Local backups containing your sensitive data are rarely encrypted or even protected by a simple password.
- Disgruntled employees, competitors, hackers,
thieves, curious people who find lost tapes, etc. all jeapardize the safety of unencrypted backups. Backup tapes are
pocket-size, so you might not even notice they are gone.
How Secure is 128-Bit AES Encryption?
For each 128-bit key, there can be 3.4 x 10^38 possible combinations. By comparison, the Enigma code used by the Germans in
World War II had approximately 1.1 x 10^7 keys and DES has about 7.2 x 10^16 keys.
To put this into perspective, if we assumed a super-computer could break the DES code in one second, it would take the same
supercomputer 149 trillion years to decode a 128-bit AES key - longer than our universe has existed.
It is safe to say no supercomputer in the foreseeable future will be able to brute-force AES 128 bit. As long as no one finds
your encryption phrase, your encrypted data can never be deciphered.
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