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by rcxdude 1245 days ago
The point is it goes master password -> encryption key -> master password hash. The master password hash is only important if you want to download the database from bitwardan's server, the real valuable part is the encryption key, and the attacker is extremely unlikely to have the master password hash but not the encrypted database which they can use to check the encryption key.
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Ah, that makes it clear. Thank you for the explanation. :)