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Security Concerns of Entirely Localized Password Manager

I'm creating a Chrome extension to autofill username and password for one specific site, "example.com". I would like to make EVERYTHING localized to prevent any security concerns. My process is as follows:

  • on Options page, user can input username/password, which is saved in chrome.storage.local
  • on "example.com", the extension autofills the username and password with chrome.storage.local.get(() => ...)

What are the security concerns of this?

What I've Considered

I'm concerned about

  1. Chrome says storage.local is not safe, but they do not provide reasons. Liability?
  2. Chrome also says storage.local is unique per chrome extension / site. So the ONLY way for an attacker to steal a password is by hacking me and / or my source code, and pushing malicious changes to my extension, correct? (if there's any other way it's a definite no-go)
  3. Ideally, I would have the password / username be encrypted, with e.g. AES-256. But if everything's local, there's either one master key (which any attacker could find) or a unique key that's stored "securely somewhere" in the app, maybe created at install. << but where to store that? If there's a "secure somewhere" in the app, I should just put the password / username there.

I'd like to do this without a server, however if that's not possible I'm open to suggestions.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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