Feature Request: access the list of passwords through a web based interface (also in other browsers)

mozilla-lockwise / lockwise-addon

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Feature Request: access the list of passwords through a web based interface (also in other browsers) #381

Open tmontanaro opened 4 years ago

tmontanaro commented 4 years ago

Feature Request: It would be useful to access the list of passwords through a web based interface (also in other browsers). Supporting use case: if I lose my smartphone, I'm outside and I ask my friend to access the internet, how can I access my passwords?

mnoorenberghe commented 4 years ago

Unlike some other browsers and password managers, we use end-to-end encryption of the login data so our server doesn't have access to the logins in order to show them on a webpage easily. There was a prototype by the Firefox Account/Sync team a few years ago though.

1000i100 commented 4 years ago

It could be done like protonmail do : If i have well understand, the e2e encryption is based on a key derivated from the password. So, the encrypted data can be accessible only with authentification to firefox-sync server, then the firefox password derivation and the decrypting stuff can be done client-side, in browser. At last, there is UI stuff to display the data.