Commit 2a02cc5d authored by Christos Froussios's avatar Christos Froussios Committed by Commit Bot

[Password Manager] Update faq on Linux storing of passwords

Bug: 893553
Change-Id: Ia935b7b07ad16d6b801a809d06d0a518576dc871
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1700222Reviewed-by: default avatarChris Palmer <palmer@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Christos Froussios <cfroussios@chromium.org>
Auto-Submit: Christos Froussios <cfroussios@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#682173}
parent dcab67d7
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credentials in "Login Data" in the Chrome users profile directory, but
encrypted on disk with a key that is then stored in the user's Keychain.
See [Issue 466638](https://crbug.com/466638) for further explanation.
* On Linux, credentials are stored into Gnome-Keyring or KWallet, depending
on the environment. On environments which don't ship with Gnome-Keyring
or KWallet, the password is stored into "Login Data" in an unprotected
format.
* On Linux, Chrome previously stored credentials directly in the user's
Gnome Keyring or KWallet, but for technical reasons, it has switched to
storing the credentials in "Login Data" in the Chrome user's profile directory,
but encrypted on disk with a key that is then stored in the user's Gnome
Keyring or KWallet. If there is no available Keyring or KWallet, the data is
not encrypted when stored.
* On iOS, passwords are currently stored directly in the iOS Keychain and
referenced from the rest of the metadata stored in a separate DB. The plan
there is to just store them in plain text in the DB, because iOS gives
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