Firefox Master Password-How to Crack, Recover, Steal or Retrieve

Firefox Master Password

Almost all of the modern day Internet browsers allow you to save passwords so as to let you login the websites with one single click whenever you visit them next time. This add lots of convenience to the user as It obviates the need to remember lots of passwords.

But remember, convenience comes at a price, and the price here is the compromise with your security. Although browsers safeguard your passwords in encrypted form in specialized files, which are not easy to decrypt.

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The Change of Algorithm of Saving Passwords in Firefox 3.5

Starting with its recently released verion 3.5, Firefox has modified its algorithm of saving the passwords. Firefox till version 3.5 stores the sign-on secrets in signons.txt file located in the Firefox profile directory. With version 3.5 onwards Firefox started storing the sign-on secrets in Sqlite database file named ’signons.sqlite’.

The new signons.sqlite database file has two tables moz_disabledHosts and moz_logins. The moz_disabledHosts table contains list of excluded websites which are exempted from storing passwords by user. The moz_logins table contains all the saved website passwords.

Whatever be the case or version, Firefox uses the the concept of a master password, which can be set as per user preference. If a Firefox Master password is set, then you cannot see the saved passwords from within Firefox unless you know the master password.

But what in case, you forget your master password. Or if you want to steal the master password of somebody else. Or if you want to know the master password of another user, using your computer. Here is free master password cracking tool, which works like a charm even with the latest version of Firefox, i.e. Firefox 3.5.

Crack Firefox Master Password with FireMaster

FireMaster is a free utility to be operated on command prompt. It can easily retrieve your encrypted  master password from deep within the Firefox Files. It uses following mechanism to crack the master password.

1. FireMaster generates passwords on the fly through various methods.
2. Then it computes the hash of the password using known algorithm.
3. Next this password hash is used to decrypt the encrypted data for known plain text (i.e. “password-check”).
4. Now if the decrypted string matches with the known plain text (i.e. “password-check”) then the generated password is the master password.

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