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

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95 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source
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java-man ◴[22 Oct 24 04:34 UTC] No.41911233[source]▶
Firefox is using TripleDES??
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hulitu ◴[22 Oct 24 05:59 UTC] No.41911581[source]▶
> Firefox is using TripleDES??

What's wrong with it ? /s

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penguin359 ◴[22 Oct 24 06:10 UTC] No.41911639[source]▶
I would mostly say that it's just slow and AES is a much more modern and faster (partly due to hardware acceleration built into modern chips) that is already built info Firefox to support TLS anyways. There are some known attacks against 3DES now, but nothing that completely breaks it yet. And, since this is just for local storage, primarily, it shouldn't be as vulnerable as using 3DES for TLS channel encryption.
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N-Krause ◴[22 Oct 24 06:14 UTC] No.41911660[source]▶
Thanks, even tho the comment above signaled sarcasm, the explanation was helpful for me, as I really had no idea what 3DES means and why it could be problematic.
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Dalewyn ◴[22 Oct 24 06:18 UTC] No.41911682[source]▶
I shudder to think that even a simple Google query leading to a Wikipedia article was too much effort here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES

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bbarnett ◴[22 Oct 24 06:26 UTC] No.41911722[source]▶
Any "simple" Google query now means pages of nonsense answers, promoted sites, AI "help", before you even get to a cogent result.

Much better to just talk to others than use Google.

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1. Scoundreller ◴[22 Oct 24 06:31 UTC] No.41911743[source]▶
Reddit, got it.

and Google and quora are in cahoots, right?