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Chrome 80 how to decode cookies

Since Chrome version 80 and higher, cookies are encrypted using AES-256 in GCM mode. The applied key is encrypted using DPAPI. The details are described here, section Chrome v80.0 and higher. The encrypted key starts with the ASCII encoding of DPAPI (i.e. 0x4450415049) and is Base64 encoded, i.e. the key must first be Base64 decoded … Read more

How do I store and retrieve credentials from the Windows Vault credential manager?

Many thanks to @Luke for the hint: Windows API functions to store credentials to and read them from Windows Vault are CredWrite() and CredRead(). Here is a code sample that may be compiled and run, that I used to confirm that these functions indeed do the expected thing: #include <windows.h> #include <wincred.h> #include <wchar.h> #pragma … Read more