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by scoot 929 days ago
>> Is it less safe to share the “Default Folder” as encrypted then? Its folder ID is always just 'default'.

> In the sense that someone could easier pre-brute-force all passwords for that specific folder ID, yes.

That's the definition of a rainbow table, and a fixed, known folder ID makes the "salt" effectively worthless.