Why are encryption keys only made up of numbers?

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test22352017-11-07 02:51:58

Encryption

test2235, 2017-11-07 02:51:58

The question is why the encryption keys in the TLS-SSL protocol consist only of numbers, without symbols. After all, if there were also symbols, it would be much more difficult to guess the password.

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cicatrix, 2017-11-07
@test2235

The encryption key is a sequence of zeros and ones (binary number). In what form they are presented to the user, it does not matter.

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vreitech, 2017-11-07
@fzfx

what you call "only digits, no characters" is called either ASN.1 or Base32 or whatever. what you see is just one of the ways the key is written to the file, and does not affect the difficulty of guessing the "password" in any way. after all, everything in a computer is a number, including your symbols. the key consists of a sequence of bits. different encryption algorithms have their own key sizes (for example, 1024 bits or 4096 bits). in fact, it is this (although not only) that determines the complexity of the "password".
By the way, what does the password have to do with it, if we are talking about encryption keys?