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How many keys can be generated and stored on a SAKA server? This depends on the capacity of your SAKA's internal database. The database automatically grows to accommodate its needs and the file system should have over 700GB available for the database to grow. Since a 256-bit symmetric key uses less than 1024 bits, even after it is encrypted and encoded into Base64, SAKA has sufficient capacity to store billions of cryptographic keys. However, even with the daily key duration policy it is anticipated that most SAKA instances will generate and use less than 1,000 keys (Data-encryption, HMAC, and Password HMAC) per year—potentially giving you many millenia worth of cryptographic keys within one encryption domain.