What is the main challenge addressed in this article regarding offline extraction of Chrome saved passwords?
The previous method for offline extraction of Chrome saved passwords required the user's plaintext password, which is often unavailable in modern Windows systems that only expose the NTLM hash. This article introduces a new technique using the Master Key extracted from the lsass process, eliminating the need for the plaintext password entirely.
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