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Absolute money quote: "As far as the password storage goes, you are not up-to-date. They are stored base64-encoded now."

• Asbostos 11y ago
  There's the argument that if someone has access to the passwords then they've already got enough control over the computer to do whatever other damage they like - like reading them out of memory after they're decrypted. Base64 at least provides some protection against somebody looking at it with their eyes and memorizing them, which is perhaps a more likely scenario - family members, kids, etc.
  • redbeard0x0a 11y ago
    Base64 provides no protection from malware that infects your machine and actively looks for this kind of stuff. Stored passwords from websites, ftp programs, key safes, etc.