Google Chrome browser is the latest
entry into the ongoing web browser's war which is mainly ruled by IE
and Firefox. The word Google behind the Chrome has given it lot of
hype and popularity than any other browser got in such a short
duration. However some of the salient features such as searching from the
same address bar, thumbnails of top sites, private browsing etc
makes it stand apart from other browsers in the market.
Like other browsers Chrome also has built-in login password manager
functionality which keeps track of the login secrets of all visited
websites. Whenever user logins to any website, he/she will be
prompted to save the credentials for later use and if user chooses
so, then the username & passwords will be stored in internal login
database. So next time onwards whenever user visits that website,
he/she will be automatically logged in using these stored
credentials which saves hassle of entering the credentials every
time.
Recovering Chrome Passwords using ChromePasswordDecryptor
ChromePasswordDecryptor tool makes it
easy to decrypt or recover the login secrets stored by Chrome. It
automatically detect the default chrome profile path for the current
user and displays all the stored login credentials in clear text
after decrypting them. It also shows all the blacklisted website
entries for which user has prompted Chrome to not to remember the
passwords.
Another useful feature of this tool is the Export option which can
be used to save the login secrets to the local file in standard HTML
format. This will be very useful in following cases
To take backup of the login secrets for the stored websites
To transfer the secrets from one system to another.
To store the website passwords at more secured centralized
location
To recover the passwords in case Chrome becomes not accessible or
non functional.
Internals of ChromePasswordDecryptor
Chrome stores all the sign-on secrets into the internal database file
called 'Web data' in the current user profile folder. This database file
is in SQLite format and contains number of tables storing different kind
of data such as auto complete, search keyword, ie7logins etc in addition
to login secrets.
The logins table mainly contains the information about sign-on secrets
such as website URL, username, password fields etc. All this information
is stored in the clear text except passwords which are in encrypted
format.
ChromePasswordDecryptor loads the secrets from logins table and then
decrypts the password for each of the websites stored by Chrome.
ChromePasswordDecryptor is standalone application which does not
require any installation and can be directly executed after copying to
local system.
Launch the ChromePasswordDecryptor on the system.
By
default it will automatically display the default chrome
profile path for current user. However you can change the path using the
'browse' button besides it.
Then you can click on 'Show' button to decrypt and
display all the stored login secrets from Chrome as
shown in the Screenshot 1 below.
Next you can click on 'Export' button
to save all the secrets to standard HTML file.
ChromePasswordDecryptor in Action
Here are the screenshots of
ChromePasswordDecryptor showing it in action...
Screenshot 1: ChromePasswordDecryptor showing the blacklisted websites and decrypted passwords from the Chrome store.
Screenshot 2: Exported Chrome secrets in standard HTML format
by ChromePasswordDecryptor
History
Version 1.5 : 11th Jan 2010
Support for Windows 7. Fixed the problem with database file
being locked while Chrome is running.
Version 1.0.1 : 12th July 2009
First public release of ChromePasswordDecryptor featuring the
recovery of login secrets stored by Chrome and Export option to save the
credentials to file.
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