How to Recover Saved Passwords in Brave Browser

In this article, you’ll learn where Brave browser stores your passwords, how they are protected, and how you can easily recover them.

Brave Browser Password Secrets

Brave browser stores all your website login passwords in the “Login Data” file at following location

[New Brave Browser]
C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\

[Old Brave Browser] 
C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Brave\

This “Login Data” file is stored in SQLite database format. It contains database table called “logins” where each website login details are stored.

Here are some of the interesting fields stored in this table,

origin_url - main link of the website
action_url - login link of the website
username_element - name of the username field in the website
username_value - username used for login
password_element - name of the password field in the website
password_value - password used for login (encrypted)	

Here action_url, username_value and password_value refers to website login link, username and encrypted password respectively.

Brave browser encrypts the website password using Windows DPAPI (Data Protection API) functions.

These DPAPI functions perform encryption of password using user and machine specific data. As a result encrypted password cannot be decrypted by another user or another computer.

Hence Brave browser password recovery has to be performed on the same computer as same user.

How to Decrypt Brave Browser Passwords

Brave uses Windows DPAPI function, CryptProtectData to encrypt the website password. We can decrypt this password using the function called CryptUnprotectData.

Here is the sample C++ program to decrypt the Brave website password.

void DecryptPassword(char *passData, int passLen, char *password, int length)
{
	DATA_BLOB DataPassword;
	DATA_BLOB DataOutput;
	
	DataPassword.cbData = passLen;
	DataPassword.pbData = (BYTE *) passData;

	if( CryptUnprotectData(&DataPassword, NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, &DataOutput) == FALSE )
	{
		printf("CryptUnprotectData failed with error 0x%.8x", GetLastError());
		return;
	}

	memcpy(password, DataOutput.pbData, DataOutput.cbData);
	password[DataOutput.cbData] = 0;
	
	
	printf("Successfully Decrypted Password is %s ", password);

}

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