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Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years

Firefox and Thunderbird allow users to set up a “master password”” feature. The encryption scheme used by the master password feature is weak and can be easily brute-forced. The SHA-1 function has an iteration count of 1

Source: suggesting this would be fixed with the launch of Firefox’s new password manager component currently codenamed Lockbox.”

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