I think the current secret key is OK, except that the secret key is stored in plain text. Harold Feit closed the other thread with some nonesense. You cannot take my secret key (i.e. password) and store it in plain text, and now you tell me yadayada and close my thread. Bittorrent Lab tells us the following: "Can other BitTorrent users see my shared files? No. BitTorrent Sync is based on the BitTorrent protocol, but all the traffic is encrypted using a private key derived from the shared secret. Your files can be viewed and received only by the people with whom you share your private secret. What is a "secret" and how does it work? A secret is a key that connects different devices and joins them together." So if anyone with access to my private secret can view my files, then why is the secret stored in plaintext on my computer? Would you store UNIX (and perhaps Windows) password on disc in plaintext? Bittorrent Lab, please do whatever, but don't have the client store the secret in plaintext!