opera browser password | XenArmor https://xenarmor.com Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:48:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://xenarmor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon-120x120.png opera browser password | XenArmor https://xenarmor.com 32 32 How to Recover Saved Passwords in Opera Browser https://xenarmor.com/how-to-recover-saved-passwords-in-opera-browser/ https://xenarmor.com/how-to-recover-saved-passwords-in-opera-browser/#respond Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:49:46 +0000 https://xenarmor.com/?p=14788 This research article shows you all password secrets of Opera browser including where all your website passwords are stored, how it is stored and how to recover it automatically. Opera Browser Password Secrets Latest version of Opera browser stores all your website login passwords in the “Login Data” file at following location [Windows Vista/7/8/10] C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\ [Windows XP/2003] C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\Opera Software\Opera Stable\ 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. Opera browser encrypts the website password using Windows DPAPI (Data Protection API) functions. Please refer to next section to know how to decrypt these passwords. Older versions of Opera browser used to store website logins in file called “wand.dat”. Below are the file location for different versions of Opera browser Opera v10.0 and later ---------------------- [Windows Vista/7/8/10] C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\wand.dat [Windows XP/2003] C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\Opera\Opera\wand.dat Opera less than v10.0 ---------------------- [Windows Vista/7/8/10] C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\profile\wand.dat [Windows XP/2003] C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\wand.dat This “wand.dat” file contains following interesting fields in the order, Login URL of website Main URL of website Username field ID Username Password field ID Password All these information are stored in the encrypted format in “wand.dat” file. Opera used Triple-DES algorithm with static magic key to encrypt all these secrets. How to Decrypt Opera Browser Passwords Latest version of Opera...

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