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		pjc50 on Jan 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: North Korea’s Naenara Web Browser: It’s Weirder Th... Are you saying that the "google api key" passed by Firefox is user-specific?

gcp on Jan 9, 2015 [–]

No, not at all. SafeBrowsing had a separate encryption/MAC key. I think some of the confusion is because the parent poster posted a link to v3 of the protocol, which dropped the key in favor of HTTPS, but the old Firefox version implements v2.

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