Made a short comparison between the security of Pale Moon, Firefox, and Chrome's sync in the fediverse

Anything to do with the Pale Moon Sync service.
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Made a short comparison between the security of Pale Moon, Firefox, and Chrome's sync in the fediverse

Post by jobbautista9 » 2025-03-10, 07:58

Since I've been seeing people talk about browser sync in the fediverse I thought it'd be nice to make comparisons between the three browsers based on what I know, so here it is: https://outerheaven.club/notice/AruAkyfdav3E2TIMVc

If you have anything to correct or add please feel free to reply below :thumbup:
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Re: Made a short comparison between the security of Pale Moon, Firefox, and Chrome's sync in the fediverse

Post by Moonchild » 2025-03-10, 12:09

LGTM as far as the description of the service and security goes.
You could possibly mention that the 12-character "quick link" is using a 0-knowledge transfer of data method, avoiding key disclosure.
In detail: to transfer the account credentials and secret key it uses a protocol called J-PAKE, which prevents any system except the sending and receiving one from being able to learn the contents of the transferred data (the J-PAKE server never knows what data is being transferred because it is end-to-end encrypted, and the server just hands over encrypted data blobs from one to another).
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Re: Made a short comparison between the security of Pale Moon, Firefox, and Chrome's sync in the fediverse

Post by jobbautista9 » 2025-03-10, 12:18

Thanks, I've edited into the post a mention of that detail about J-PAKE! :thumbup:
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