Hi Adam,

Are you aware of any plans to ever make the password store accessible
to extensions?  Or is this something I should not hold out any hope
for?

-Min

On Dec 10 2009, 7:07 pm, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I don't think Chrome's password store is accessible to extensions.  I
> recommend encrypting the passwords and storing the encrypted values in
> localStorage.  Key management is a bit tricky.  You could either ask
> the user to enter a passphrase and generate the key from that, or you
> could store the key on your server and use another mechanism to
> authenticate the user.
>
> I've heard that <http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/> is a high-quality
> symmetric crypto library for JavaScript.
>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:11 PM, nibl <wordi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to use Chrome's password storage? I need to send logins
> > over https, but where and how to store?
>
> > Mozilla has nslLoginManager.
>
> > There are these two threads, but no really secure conclusions:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thre...
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thre...
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Marcus
>
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