A (not) new security idea
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Oct 14 16:45:47 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:26, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>
> > I do have one idea that many people may find useful. Using your idea of
> > a usb flash memory, figure out how to store your web browsers cache of
> > passwords on the flash memory. Then no matter what machine you use you
> > plug in the flash and your browser has all the passwords for all the
> > sites you visit. Would need to modify the browser to look for the cache
> > information on the flash memory. Once you get the proof of concept
> > working then you need to add heavy duty encryption to the flash device
> > and a method to unlock it for use by the web browser.
>
> Yeah, that would also be a way to get it off the machine and make
> them portable, too. Is there a standard amongst Mozilla variants?
> Galeon, Epiphany, Firefox all using the same password file?
I don't know the answer to that question. My guess is that they don't
use the same files or scheme for storing that info. Would make it to
easy if they did. :)
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Scot L. Harris
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