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Chromium Password Storage

The way Chromium-based browsers store passwords in a local SQLite database and encrypt those password blobs with symmetric AES keys.

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Jan 23, 2026
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how do popular web browsers (chromium/blink, firefox/gecko) store passwords, do they encrypt the stores locally, and how?

store passwords in a local SQLite database and encrypt those password blobs with whose protection depends on the operating system’s secret stores (, , ) or on per-user encryption schemes like Chromium...