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by mradestock 4057 days ago
> All of the privacy and integrity you could produce with the system described is what comes from the password.

That is correct. I guess calling this a 'password' is perhaps misleading in our docs, since it could be seen as implying human-readability and cryptographic weakness. As msackman says, the 'password' can in fact be as strong as you like.