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1password protects against this by combining the password you choose with a cryptographically random 128bit “secret key”. That one isn’t getting brute forced easily.
https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-paper.pdf
They document their vault security highly and it’s worth reading through.
Good point. It’s been such a long time since I’ve had to use the secret that I forgot it existed.