A (not) new security idea

[Scot L. Harris]

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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