At The Electronic Guardian, your Vault is locked and unlocked by your own personal, private encryption key. We do not have, nor do we retain a copy of this key, anywhere.
The “strength” of AES-256 lies in its key length. A 256-bit key means there are 2256 possible combinations. To put that into perspective, 2256 is an astronomically large number – far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe.
Imagine trying to guess a password that is one of these 2256 combinations. Even if you had the most powerful supercomputers on Earth working in unison, trying billions of keys per second, it would still take trillions upon trillions of years to exhaust even half of the possible keys. To put it another way, it would require more energy than the known universe can supply. Current computational power simply does not allow for a brute-force attack on a well-implemented AES-256 key in any meaningful time frame.
This is not just theoretical. The algorithms themselves are rigorously reviewed by cryptographers globally, and while theoretical weaknesses (often requiring impossible conditions to exploit) are sometimes found in academic settings, a practical attack that could “break” the encryption by finding the key has never materialized for AES-256.
The only person that has your key is you. Our structure and security, has been developed to ensure your information is fully protected.