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1) How do you do that? His random generator is not even controlled by him, it's a bunch of open source browsers.

2) That's basically bruteforcing. Considering he is running pbkdf2 thousands of times, good luck with that. You might get lucky with 5-6 character passwords and a bunch of servers.

3) How?

4) Passwords are usually stored either nowhere (inside user's head) or a program like KeePass. Good luck breaking either.

5) What would that give you? It's still triple-encrypted.



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