BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 12 days agoEdge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and Microsoft says it's "by design"www.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1120arrow-down1external-linkEdge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and Microsoft says it's "by design"www.neowin.netBrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square9linkfedilinkfile-text
Edge stores passwords in plaintext memory at startup; a tool has been released to test against the flaw.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoAt some point they will need to be decrypted anyway I think this was done for performance and simplicity
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoYep, and at that point they will be in memory until a reasonable time to clean up. But decrypting the whole password database and leaving it there forever seems needlessly unsafe.
At some point they will need to be decrypted anyway
I think this was done for performance and simplicity
Yep, and at that point they will be in memory until a reasonable time to clean up. But decrypting the whole password database and leaving it there forever seems needlessly unsafe.