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A note of caution on Firefox's storage of passwords
Authored by: johnsonua on Jan 24, '07 10:51:38AM

Firefox *stores* the passwords (master password or not) in encrypted form. The issue is the display of the passwords within the program, and this is a good, common sense tip.



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A note of caution on Firefox's storage of passwords
Authored by: Brock Lee on Jan 24, '07 12:59:03PM

But if I'm reading the initial post correctly, it can be automatically unencrypted without the user having to provide a password. This can only be possible if the key is known or can be easily derived. And if that's the case, this "encryption" is not worthy of minimal security.



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