How does Google Chrome store passwords ?

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Published on 2010-05-29T18:31:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 18:42 UTC
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Are they encrypted in disk? How? Are they safe, for example, in the event of someone booting from a Live CD and mounting the hard disk?

Which is the encryption key? Is it different in Windows and Linux?

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