diff --git a/src/services/crypto.service.ts b/src/services/crypto.service.ts
index 6f5b201ab2f..01b4ba4b623 100644
--- a/src/services/crypto.service.ts
+++ b/src/services/crypto.service.ts
@@ -690,20 +690,18 @@ export class CryptoService implements CryptoServiceAbstraction {
         return okm;
     }
 
-    private async hashPhrase(data: ArrayBuffer, minimumEntropy: number = 64, hashIterations: number = 50000) {
+    private async hashPhrase(hash: ArrayBuffer, minimumEntropy: number = 64) {
         const entropyPerWord = Math.log(EEFLongWordList.length) / Math.log(2);
         let numWords = Math.ceil(minimumEntropy / entropyPerWord);
 
-        const hashBuffer = await this.cryptoFunctionService.pbkdf2(data, new Uint8Array([]).buffer,
-            'sha256', hashIterations);
-        const hash = Array.from(new Uint8Array(hashBuffer));
-        const entropyAvailable = hash.length * 4;
+        const hashArr = Array.from(new Uint8Array(hash));
+        const entropyAvailable = hashArr.length * 4;
         if (numWords * entropyPerWord > entropyAvailable) {
             throw new Error('Output entropy of hash function is too small');
         }
 
         const phrase: string[] = [];
-        let hashNumber = bigInt.fromArray(hash, 256);
+        let hashNumber = bigInt.fromArray(hashArr, 256);
         while (numWords--) {
             const remainder = hashNumber.mod(EEFLongWordList.length);
             hashNumber = hashNumber.divide(EEFLongWordList.length);