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by yoble 529 days ago
I don't think that's correct as a blanket statement - you can use a passphrase, or remember a 14+ character password since you only have one to remember.

Even if it's only random-ish, password managers do key stretching (for example by hashing the password 600k times - bitwarden has a high default value and lets you increase it if you like) so that it has to take some computational effort to check if a single password is correct. That's why it take a few seconds to unlock your vault each time.

With these in place I think you're pretty safe for a long time. (Well, maybe until quantum computing breaks those cyphers?)