Mozilla Master Password Recovery Screenshots:
setting Master Password recovery options
Currently there are 8 decryption methods available:
- Preliminary attack is a set of mini sub-attacks.
- Artificial Intelligence attack. Scans your system for the lost password.
- Dictionary attack. Try every word from a dictionary until the password is found. This attack is the most effective.
- Brute-force attack. Guess the password by trying all probable password variants by given character set.
- Mask attack. Very helpful if there's any information about the password.
- Base-word attack. Useful if a part (or source word) of the password is known.
- Combined dictionary attack - to guess complex passwords.
- Phrase attack - search complex password by looking through a dictionary with frequently used phrases and word combinations.
Once selected a recovery type, you will be prompted for different options on the next Wizard page. Let's take a closer look at them.