Re: How to move a password manager file to a new profile?

2003-01-22 Thread Nelson B. Bolyard
Michel D'Hooge wrote: BTW, what is the format for obfuscation? It's ordinary base-64 encoding. Is it simple to convert it back to plain text? Sure, just run it through any base-64 decoder tool, such as NSS's atob program. -- Nelson Bolyard Disclaimer: I

How to move a password manager file to a new profile?

2003-01-06 Thread Michel D'Hooge
Hello, My mozilla profile got corrupted so I started with a brand new one but then I have problem to re-use all my passwords cleverly encrypted with PSM :-( At first, I believed I could just replace the somenumber.s file. But of course, I can't. Even with the same file name and master

Re: Password Manager File

2002-12-09 Thread Mitchell Stoltz
TGOS wrote: I was trustful that people actually think about such things like Does it make sense to offer third party apps easy access to the data without forcing them to use our libs. I didn't know that things like this are never considered right from the start. Who says it wasn't considered?

Re: Password Manager File

2002-11-25 Thread Thomas Dodd
TGOS wrote: On 21 Nov 2002 19:37:47 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Dodd) wrote in netscape.public.mozilla.security: You always have 2 choices here. 1) use the library, possibly statically linking it, or 2) rewrite the needed parts in you app. And I choose (2), because I can't link

Password Manager File - The Final Conflict

2002-11-19 Thread Chris LeBlanc
humor OK, that's IT. TGOS, it's time for Gladiator style combat to finish this! /humor Really, let's get to it. *The Background:* TGOS, as best I can tell, wants to write a program so the user can open their (I hope) password file and manage the stored passwords for the sites they visit.

Re: Password Manager File

2002-11-18 Thread Boris Zbarsky
TGOS wrote: (and a quantum computer may be able to solve it pretty fast) For the foreseeable future (next few decades, imo) this should be the least of your worries. This is my personal opinion, of course, based on a bit over a year of doing quantum computing research OIDs are S/MIME

Re: Password Manager File

2002-11-17 Thread Nelson B
TGOS wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:09:00 -0800 Nelson B. Bolyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in netscape.public.mozilla.security: The request is based on a false premise, that the key is derived from the master password. The key is NOT derived from the master password. Then Mozilla

Re: Password Manager File

2002-11-07 Thread Daniel Veditz
TGOS wrote: On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:04:03 +0100 Boris Stanislavski [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, they can reply to it right now and if they don't want, they only harm the Mozilla project, as then I will not write that app or write it for another browser instead and stop using Mozilla at all and

Re: Password Manager File

2002-11-02 Thread Boris Zbarsky
TGOS wrote: I asked the question before, but never got any reply. You may have better luck in n.p.m.crypto