In terms of letters, how long is the encryption for an AES key length?
How many characters do I need to type for my key if I use AES 128 bit or 256 bit? While searching about this on the internet, I was able to grasp that the user may want to limit the:
"amount of information protected by a given key" "amount of exposure if a single key is compromised" "time available for attempts to penetrate physical, procedural, and logical access" "period within which information may be compromised by inadvertent disclosure" "time available for computationally intensive cryptanalytic attacks"
Ideally an AES key length can be -
An AES 128-bit key can be expressed as a hexadecimal string with 32 characters. It will require 24 characters in base64. An AES 256-bit key can be expressed as a hexadecimal string with 64 characters. It will require 44 characters in base64.