![]() ![]() ![]() However, because your Windows account password is a constant, access to the “master password” is not exclusive to Chrome as external utilities can get to this data – and decrypt it – as well. As a result, once you are logged into Windows using your account this data is decipherable by Chrome. So essentially, your master password is your Windows account password. To perform the encryption (on Windows), Chrome uses a Windows provided API function which makes the encrypted data only decipherable by the Windows user account used to encrypt the password. You will notice the “password_value” field is unreadable because the value is encrypted. You can open this file (the file name is just “Login Data”) using SQLite Database Browser and view the “logins” table which contains the saved passwords. ![]() %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data The saved password data is stored in an SQLite database located here: if you have access to the desktop where Chrome is installed, you can get to the passwords), there is at least user intervention required to view each password with no way to export them in bulk to a plain text file. While there is no restriction to access this screen (i.e. A nice touch of minor security is that you must first click the show button next to each password you want to view. ![]()
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