![]() Even if the browser requires password to show plain text debug tools will still let you see already filled passwords as comments. With a good password manager this is becoming the consensus best practice.Įdit to add: please read Henno Brandsma answer explaining how login password and OS support can be used to encrypt passwords, this gives a reasonable level of protection to your passwords when the computer is off/locked (full disk encryption is better) and won't help much if you leave your computer unlocked. Even with a less than perfect password manager this isn't an unreasonable trade off. In exchange for a single point of failure of your password manager. With a password manager you trust, you can give each site a unique random password not memorable at all and gain a lot of protection from many very real attack vectors. You get the risks of password manager without the benefits. ![]() And I may venture to guess you may even repeat the password or at least the theme across many sites. You seem to be inconsistent (many are) by both selecting memorable passwords and using a password manager. I also, however, have full disk encryption and lock my screen diligently. Personally, I use the chrome password manager and I find it convenient. Many will encrypt the data locally, but the key will also be stored locally unless you have a master password setup. ![]() They are not an option for password managers. Hashed passwords work for the site authenticating you. Click show on any of them and it will appear in the clear. Under settings -> advanced -> manage passwords you can find all your passwords for all your sites. Is this not the case? Is there some other layer of security that would prevent this?Ĭhrome not only stores your password text, it will show it to you. It seems like a short stride from there to say that if someone came to my computer when it was unlocked, a simple script could extract all of the stored passwords for all of the major websites which I have passwords stored for. If I can check the last character of my password without checking any others, then the amount of tries it takes to crack the password grows linearly with the number of characters not exponentially. It seems to me that this is a fundamental security flaw. I deleted the last couple of characters and tried different numbers and viola, knew what was the right ending number. I could not remember the ending number for a certain login, so I went to a website where the password was stored. This results in a lot of passwords that are the same, but sometimes I forget what the end number needs to be for a particular login. I know this is bad, but with how often I am asked to change passwords, I really could not remember the number of passwords expected of me. I'm one of those people who when asked to change their password just keeps the same password, but changes a number at the end. I have noticed that the browser fills the username and password fields, and the password field indicates the number of characters in the password. If someone found my computer unlocked, they could get past the login screen for some website using the stored details, but if asked for the password again like during checkout, or if they wanted to login to the service from another device, they would be out of luck.Īt least, that's what I used to think when I believed the browser did not store the password itself, but a hash or encryption of the password. I used to believe this was fairly secure. Whenever I enter a login into a new site, Chrome asks me if it should store the login details.
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