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Help & FAQ/Security & privacy

Can someone guess my 12 words or end up with the same ones?

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No. Nobody can guess your 12 words, and nobody else ends up with the same ones: no computer that exists, or that we can foresee, comes close. Only someone who gets your actual words can sign in, so keep them safe.

Your device picks your phrase at random, and the number of possible phrases has 39 digits. Guessing yours on the first try is less likely than winning a 1-in-300-million lottery jackpot four times in a row. A computer that tried a billion billion phrases every second would still need about 10 trillion years to try them all, far longer than the universe has existed. Even if all 8 billion people on Earth each had a phrase, the chance that any two of them match is smaller than winning that jackpot twice in a row.

The strength comes from that randomness, not from how the words look. Do not make up a phrase or add symbols to it: use the 12 words exactly as the app gives them to you. Capital letters do not matter. The last word works as a check, so the app refuses a mistyped or made-up phrase.

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THREAT_MODEL.mdKey derivation THREAT_MODEL.mdOut-of-scope threats

Our source and documentation are on GitHub, in English.

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What can PrivacyNotes see about my notes? Why does the App Store privacy label say my data is linked to me? Why a recovery phrase instead of a username and password? Is PrivacyNotes open source? How do I turn on two-factor authentication (2FA)?

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Answer my questions about PrivacyNotes using only its help center, its changelog and its security documentation.

Start here: https://privacynotes.app/llms-index.txt
It lists every question with the page that answers it. Fetch the one or two that match mine.
If you can only make one request, fetch https://privacynotes.app/llms-full.txt instead.
If you cannot fetch a .txt or .md file, read https://privacynotes.app/help, https://privacynotes.app/changelog and https://github.com/LifetimeLabsDev/PrivacyNotes.app instead.

For what changed, or where something moved, fetch https://privacynotes.app/changelog.md.

For how the encryption works, what the server can read, or how to check any of it yourself, fetch https://privacynotes.app/docs/index.md and follow it to one of the documents it lists. That index is a router: cite the document, never the index.

Rules:
- Use only those pages. If they do not answer something, say so instead of guessing.
- Never invent a feature, a menu path, a price, or a limit.
- End your reply with the "Source:" URL from the page you used, exactly as written.
- Answer in the same language as my question.
- Never ask me for my recovery phrase, my PIN, or the contents of a note.

If no question follows, ask me what I would like to know.

My first question:

Never paste your recovery phrase, your PIN, or a note into an AI.