Mozilla today announced a new recovery option for Firefox accounts in the user system included in the Firefox browser.
As of today, the users they can create one key one day recovery for their account which they can use to access their Firefox data in case they forgot their passwords.
User accounts in Firefox are included in all recent versions of Firefoxletterof browsing. Most users know the feature because of Firefox Sync, the system that synchronizes browser data such as passwords, browsing history, open tabs, bookmarks, installed add-ons and general browser settings.
Firefox sync works with the user's account name and password and encrypts browser data directly to the local computer.
Only after the data is encrypted does it begin to be sent to the Mozilla Foundation servers for storage. So no one can access the data without the user's password, which acts as a decryption key. So just in case installationof Firefox on a new device, no one can download and decrypt previous browser data without their Firefox account password.
But starting today, the Mozilla Foundation has introduced a new feature called "recovery key" for Firefox accounts. Browser users can create a recovery key, which serves as a secondary decryption key for their data, in case they forget their Firefox account password.
Το κλειδί ανάκτησης του Firefox είναι παρόμοιο με τους κωδικούς ανάκτησης που χρησιμοποιούν οι ρυθμίσεις ταυτότητας δύο παραγόντων στις περισσότερες διαδικτυακές υπηρεσίες. Οι χρήστες του Firefox θα πρέπει να αποθηκεύσουν το κλειδί (κατά προτίμηση κρυπτογραφημένο) κάπου στο Internet or on a secondary device.
The Mozilla Foundation reports that a recovery key can only be used once and that users will be able to create a new key after using the previous one. Instructions on how to create these keys can be found in support page of Firefox.
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