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Re:Ask HN: How to you create and manage passwords? by jsteele on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:52AM (#460581)
Except that you don't use the full MD5 sum, so it's not a simple matter of brute-forcing it.
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Re:Ask HN: How to you create and manage passwords? by brl on Sunday February 01, 2009 @02:00AM (#460651)
For the default password length of 10 characters they use ~60 bits of MD5 output. That's more than enough information to uniquely identify the master password.
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