TLS is an extra layer of security that can be compared to wrapping your luggage before you check-in for a flight, it protects the data during its journey from your device to the LastPass server. When you are about to send or receive information to the LastPass servers, your information is wrapped in a security cocoon to shield it from any attacks which makes it pretty much impossible for hackers to intercept your encrypted data. TLS ensures very strong data protection over computer networks and prevents hackers from stealing your data as it is being sent between servers. The use of Transport Layer Security, or TLS for short, is used to protect against what is known as man-in-the-middle attacks before syncing with LastPass.

The LastPass security module effectively combines safety with the convenience of password management. This means that when you send or receive your data from LastPass it is not visible to any third-party, including LastPass.Ģ56-bit AES encryption is also used by banks and other institutions which work with sensitive data, which goes to show how effective the encryption standard is. When you need to use your passwords, the same process is repeated in reverse and passwords are sent back to your device for decryption.

The encrypted passwords are then sent to the remote LastPass server for safe storage in an encrypted format.

Since LastPass makes use of a local-only encryption model all your sensitive data is encrypted on your computer using the advanced 256-bit AES encryption standard.

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