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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:50:54 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Cracking Thunderbirds password database.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:29 AM, a <fromthestormofshadows@...il.com> wrote:
> I have managed to extract the encrypted user names and passwords from my
> Thunderbird database file, signons.sqlite and saved the data to a plain
> text file. I have eight lines, each with the user name and password, yet
> I have four email accounts. There is also the file, key3.db, which
> contains information about encryption for the passwords in signons.sqlite.
>
> However John states there are "No password hashes loaded (see FAQ)" for
> all files.

JtR currently doesn't not support cracking these type of hashes.

...

If master password is *not* set, then you can use
https://github.com/halfgenius/mozilla_password_dump to dump the
password information (works for both Thunderbird and Firefox). If
master password is set, then FireMasterLinux can help. Do report back
if it works or not. Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,
Dhiru

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