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> All password managers store plain text passwords. That's literally a requirement for them to work at all. > Chrome encrypts the password in the SQLite databa
by ssalazar 11y ago
> All password managers store plain text passwords. That's literally a requirement for them to work at all.
> Chrome encrypts the password in the SQLite database[0] using Windows' CryptProtectData() API
If its encrypted, then its not plaintext. Its ciphertext. In infosec lingo plaintext specifically refers to the unencrypted and otherwise unaltered original information.
- OJFord 11y agoSeeing as the parent comment was in reply to an assertion that Chrome stores plaintext passwords, I think it was assumed that the assertion intended to mean "Chrome has access to your plaintext passwords", otherwise the reply would simply have been "No, you're wrong".