Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwords saved in Firefox

Re:Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwo... by nikolayasdf123 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @05:44AM (#41912699)

does Chrome doing this better?

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Re:Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwo... by de_elusive on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @05:46AM (#41912713)

You still need access to the key to decrypt it regardless of the browser.

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Re:Firefox-Passwords-Decryptor: Extracts and decrypts passwo... by bdash on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @10:46AM (#41914844)

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/07/improving-security-o... talks a little about improvements Chrome has made on Windows to make it harder for malicious software to access the encryption key used to encrypt cookies and passwords on disk.

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