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It isn’t. You certainly used MD5, SHA1, SHA256 or SHA512 as hash, with SHA256 being the most likely one. All of these are very easy to bruteforce – if someone has one of your passwords, bruteforcing your master password won’t take all too long.



hash(x+const), hash^n(x), etc. are also hash functions.




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