On 20/04/10 20:13, Alan Pope wrote: <snip /> >> Well, i have sure learnt my lesson, can anyone tell me what can be gained >> from my user area in terms of web-passwords? Are they stored in .mozilla >> folder and easy to get to? > > They're in plain text, yes. > > http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/582526 - "where does firefox > store saved passwords"
Are you *sure* they are in plain text? Since Gecko 1.9 Mozilla use nsILoginManager to store and retrieve passwords in the Password Manager: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/Using_nsILoginManager This in turn relies on a storage module: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/passwordmgr/src/storage-mozStorage.js which, as you can see does use cryptography. Cheers Al. -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
