Re:Firefox 69.0 Released
by shakna on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:45AM
(#20866968)
It utilises K-anonymity, making it difficult if not impossible for this to become a massive data leak.
The email gets hashed on your device, and the start of that hash is sent off to the server. The server returns a list of all the hashes that might match. The client then checks that list for complete matches.
The email gets hashed on your device, and the start of that hash is sent off to the server. The server returns a list of all the hashes that might match. The client then checks that list for complete matches.