Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother

Re:Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother by still_grokking on Saturday March 10, 2018 @10:02PM (#16561497)

> If anything, the new iMac pro has a Secure Enclave, which means we can soon expect in some number of years that most computers will as well.

I don't know about Macs but PCs have a Smart-Card like Chip called TPM build in for about 20 years by now.

One of the main functions a TPM offers is the secure storage of encryption keys.

I wonder such a feature comes only now to Macs with about two decades of a delay?

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Re:Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother by lclarkmichalek on Saturday March 10, 2018 @11:47PM (#16561749)

I mean, TPMs only started appearing in laptops in the mid 2000s, but whatever. Unlike the TPM on most non-Apple laptops I've bought recently, the OSX secure enclave does significantly impact the security of the system. I don't know why Apple decided to create their own instead of using the standard TPM, but they've done a pretty good job of using it, unlike most other hardware vendors.

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