Opera password encryption and storage

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hello,
I'm writing BSc thesis about password managers and ways to store passwords. I'll be extremally grateful if someone could provide me some informations about password managing in Opera. How passwords are encrypted in Opera? AES? How they're hashed (if they're)? Could you give me some details about that process in that browser? It's really hard to find anything that is up to date.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

Opera's based on Chromium and I don't think Opera does anything custom in this case. So, researching how Chromium does it should reveal how Opera does it too.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I was thinking more about password storing on the server - encryption, hashing cuz if Opera letting people sync their passwords across various platforms it has to encrypt it in some way and actually... I need more details about that process.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@zuchu Ah, I see. My mistake.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Read through the "Sync your passwords" section at https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2015/06/opera-developer-32-0-1899-0-password-sync-animated-themes-and-more/. It has a little bit of details and then links to https://www.links.org/files/nigori-protocol.html.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 thanks buddy, It's helpful :)!