# Is there a way to manually locate user's passwords?

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**Created:** [21. Februar 2015 um 18:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-manually-locate-users-passwords/25492 "2015-02-21T18:03:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [22. Februar 2015 um 05:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-manually-locate-users-passwords/25492/9 "2015-02-22T05:37:22Z")

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You would need to brute force the hashed password, its using [PBKDF2 - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2) with a rather high number of iterations so you would probably be stuck only being able to test out a handful of passwords a second.

On current computing hardware if the user picked a reasonable password you are probably looking at a few centuries of computer work.

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