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Considering quantum computing to break passwords in the online setup would be nonsense. In that setup, passwords are sent to a classical system testing the password. That seems to be the question's scenario.
In the offline setup, the information that allows testing if a password is accepted or not is assumed to have leaked to the attacker (e.g. because the ...
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