Hello, Am I right in thinking all saved passwords aren't encrypted? If so, is it not possible to something similar to other programs which let you set a master password, which is used to encrypt the passwords?

Thanks

They are encrypted.

If you take a look at the accounts file, you'll see the passwords are base64 encoded. Try decoding one, and you'll see its an encrypted string.

Do you mean encoded or encrypted? Unless I'm wrong and they're the same thing. Or maybe you mean the encryption is encoded.

The latter.. the encryption is encoded.

The accounts file is just a simple txt file. Binary data (encrpyted data) does not play nicely with a text file, hence the reason its base64 encoded.


So.. they base64 decode the password first, and then decrypt it.

Ok. So where is the key for the encryption? surely it must be kept in plain text if it's a string or freely available as a keyfile.