How does a hacker know when they have cracked your password vault?

The recent news of the theft / loss of password vaults and how a hacker can do a brute force offline attack on a password vault got me thinking.

So hacker tries an incorrect password, does something mathematical fail or come back with the answer “no”?

And when they do attempt the correct password, what result comes back and says “bingo, you’re in!”?

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January 25, 2023
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