diff --git a/src/Picocrypt.py b/src/Picocrypt.py
index 492dd45..b9d709b 100644
--- a/src/Picocrypt.py
+++ b/src/Picocrypt.py
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ def start():
 		password,
 		salt,
 		time_cost=8, # 8 iterations
-		memory_cost=2**10, # 2^20 Kibibytes (1GiB)
+		memory_cost=2**20, # 2^20 Kibibytes (1GiB)
 		parallelism=8, # 8 parallel threads
 		hash_len=32,
 		type=Type.ID