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That isn't necessarily very easy thing to implement. If the data is accessible by one application, how could it not be available by some other application runni
by Maakuth 12y ago
That isn't necessarily very easy thing to implement. If the data is accessible by one application, how could it not be available by some other application running with the same credentials? Maybe some "vault" daemon running as a different user could do, but then it would only take reverse engineering the client part from Chrome (if it wouldn't be open source via Chromium already). And all this to protect the application data from other application user is willingly running? TL;DR: don't run applications you don't trust.
- gnufied 12y agoIf you have configured Chrome with a Google account, on Linux - for me, it does ask me for password on restart. I am assuming the password is for decrypting the passwords it stores in browser's "manage passwords". Overall, I think either: a. Chrome can use that account password for decrypting the other senstive information too. b. or it can integrate with keychain of operation system. If I am not wrong, each time a new application accesses keychain of OS, OS prompts for user's password.