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. >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
