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AES Encryption: choice of How should I choose my password?

I'm currently using AES encryption (at home) on GNU/Linux (one of LUKS AES-256 variants with xts) and on Windows 7 (Truecrypt) with a 15 characters password (alfanumeric undercasealphanumeric lowercase only plus _).

Should this be enough or would it be better to change towards a longer password. How long should it be  ? Recently viewing the results with GPU cracking I got a little worried. The thing is that I wouldn't reallydon't want to choose a password tooso long so thathat I'd not forget it and get locked out myself.

AES Encryption: choice of password

I'm currently using AES encryption (at home) on GNU/Linux (one of LUKS AES-256 variants with xts) and on Windows 7 (Truecrypt) with a 15 characters password (alfanumeric undercase only plus _).

Should this be enough or would it be better to change towards a longer password. How long should it be  ? Recently viewing the results with GPU cracking I got a little worried. The thing is that I wouldn't really choose a password too long so tha I'd not forget it and get locked out myself.

How should I choose my password?

I'm currently using AES encryption (at home) on GNU/Linux (one of LUKS AES-256 variants with xts) and on Windows 7 (Truecrypt) with a 15 characters password (alphanumeric lowercase only plus _).

Should this be enough or would it be better to change towards a longer password. How long should it be? Recently viewing the results with GPU cracking I got a little worried. The thing is that I don't want to choose a password so long so that I'd forget it and get locked out.

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