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

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110 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.332s | source
1. nikolayasdf123 ◴[22 Oct 24 09:44 UTC] No.41912699[source]▶
does Chrome doing this better?
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2. de_elusive ◴[22 Oct 24 09:46 UTC] No.41912713[source]▶
You still need access to the key to decrypt it regardless of the browser.
3. bdash ◴[22 Oct 24 14:46 UTC] No.41914844[source]▶
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.