Secure Storage on a Google Chrome Extension

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On Chrome's developer page about storage in extensions, it explicitly says that the storage area is not encrypted, so confidential information should not be stored there.

Safari offers a "SafariExtensionSecureSettings" class to securely store key/value pairs. Is there an equivalent in Google Chrome?

I've seen some questions remotely similar to this where people have made the suggestion to encrypt the confidential information and then use localStorage, but I'm looking for a different solution. — Miles, Aug 15 '12 at 15:12

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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There is currently no equivalent in Google Chrome to Safari's "SafariExtensionSecureSettings".

Here is another answer that outlines security in localStorage more generally https://stackoverflow.com/a/3719435/117068

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Aug 18 '12 at 03:52

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The Credential Management API? https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/credential-management/ – Jesse Dec 07 '18 at 21:55
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In chrome that is not supported for extensions – Robin Dijkhof Apr 11 '21 at 12:54

Secure Storage on a Google Chrome Extension

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