• lazyslacker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not aware of the details but my understanding has been that chrome used to store passwords unencrypted but now it does not.

    • beeb@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      They are indeed encrypted but the encryption key is stored in the user’s profile on disk, which defies the purpose.