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Well, based on what everyone fears is happening over at lastpass, attackers just download all the encrypted vaults, then brute force the master passwords.

I have a hard-to-guess master password, but it wouldn't surprise me if they could crack it with a 2026 vintage GPU farm.



Anyone who doubts you should run zxcvbn and more modern entropy estimators against their passwords. Our intuitions are not good. Offering password-based encryption to normal users is borderline unethical.




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