> Making changes in a session with a “stale” encryption key will cause data corruption that will make your data unrecoverable.
https://community.bitwarden.com/t/increasing-kdf-interations...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152181
EDIT: Look below, this actually applies to changing master password.
This is incorrect.
https://bitwarden.com/help/what-encryption-is-used/#changing...
> When you change the iteration count, you'll be logged out of all clients. Though the risk involved in rotating your encryption key does not exist when changing KDF iteration count, we still recommend exporting your vault beforehand.
From what I read, changing the number of iterations is safe to do.
> Making changes in a session with a “stale” encryption key will cause data corruption that will make your data unrecoverable.
https://community.bitwarden.com/t/increasing-kdf-interations...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152181
EDIT: Look below, this actually applies to changing master password.