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Password Encryption

The use of symmetric AES keys to encrypt password blobs in Chromium-based browsers.

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Jan 8, 2026
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Where does DuckDuckGo store passwords and autofill data on each operating system (file paths)?

DuckDuckGo’s built‑in password manager stores and encrypts saved passwords and autofill data locally on the device rather than (by default) in a company cloud, and the company added an end‑to‑end encr...

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...