Passwords stored by Firefox

Heinz Diehl htd+ml at fritha.org
Sun Feb 15 14:27:19 UTC 2015


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.



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