Passwords stored by Firefox

Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconnor25 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 14:30:39 UTC 2015


On 02/15/2015 09:27 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>
>> ..the simple trick is to "push" each letter over by one! That's it!
> ROT1 (or ROTX, where X is any number) is a common part of most of the
> dictionary attacks, very easy to implement and causes near zero CPU load.
> So your ROT'ed password has not a single bit more security than the
> word it originates from.
>
imagine if the "word" ISN'T a word that's found in the 
dictionary.....ANY dictionary.....would that qualify it as being a bit 
more secure?


EGO II


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