You could prompt for a master password to generate the key...

Adam


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could encrypt the passwords using a Javascript library, but then you'd
> have to store the key somewhere in plaintext.
> -Nick
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM, krtulmay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Paul, it looks like you want to save these cleartext passwords across
>> different Chrome sessions/restarts?
>>
>> How do you think Chrome could do it differently using "somewhere is
>> Chrome's facility" that could save and retrieve data across restarts
>> that would be different than LocalStorage or Local Database?
>>
>> On Sep 14, 12:16 pm, Paul Rosania <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Nick, thanks for the reply!
>> > What I'm running into is the need to store passwords in cleartext for
>> > APIs
>> > that use basic authentication (over HTTPS, of course).  It would be neat
>> > if
>> > I could store these somewhere in Chrome's facility.  It sounds like this
>> > isn't (yet?) possible.
>> >
>> > I can make do for now on my machine, but I would hesitate to release
>> > something that's storing passwords cleartext in localStorage.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Hi Paul, glad to see you're trying it out!
>> > > You can store data using HTML5 local-storage or databases. Also, if
>> > > the API
>> > > supports OAuth, you could store the tokens instead of the passwords.
>> >
>> > > -Nick
>> >
>> > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Mohamed Mansour <
>> > > [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Not yet!
>> > >> -- Mohamed Mansour
>> >
>> > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Rosania
>> > >> <[email protected]>wrote:
>> >
>> > >>> I've been playing with a few addon ideas that work with APIs out
>> > >>> there on
>> > >>> the Interweb.
>> > >>> It would be great if there was a sandbox where I could store
>> > >>> passwords
>> > >>> for APIs that use HTTPS+Basic Auth as security.  The alternative for
>> > >>> me so
>> > >>> far has been to prompt at boot and keep it in memory, which just
>> > >>> doesn't
>> > >>> feel quite right.  (Or, gasp, keep it on disk in clear text.)
>> >
>> > >>> Maybe there is a way to do this but I couldn't figure it out!
>> > >>>  Thanks for
>> > >>> any pointers.
>>
>
>
> >
>

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