It’s a tool which is used for retrieving lost master password of Firefox. Master password is used by Firefox to protect the stored sign-on information for all visited websites. If the master password is forgotten, then there is no way to get back the master password and user will lose all the sign-on information saved in it.
However user can now use FireMaster to get back all their stored credentials. FireMaster uses combination of techniques such as dictionary, hybrid and brute force to recover the master password from the Firefox key database file. Now it also supports patten based password recovery mechanism which significantly reduces the time taken to recover the password.
Working of FireMaster :-
• FireMaster generates passwords on the fly through diverse methods.
• Then it computes the hash of the password using known algorithm.
• Next this password hash is used to decrypt the encrypted data for known plain text (i.e. “password-check”).
• Now if the decrypted string matches with the known plain text (i.e. “password-check”) then the generated password is the master password.
FireMaster is tested with latest Firefox version 3.5.6 and it can recover master password successfully from any Firefox, starting with version 1.0 or more.
More details :- http://www.securityxploded.com/firemaster.php
