# Does brave store the my autofill passwords encrypted by default?

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/does-brave-store-the-my-autofill-passwords-encrypted-by-default/437919>\
**Category:** Brave Browser\
**Tags:** linux\
**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/does-brave-store-the-my-autofill-passwords-encrypted-by-default/437919 "2022-10-11T02:47:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Reflection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90ced4/32.png) [@Reflection](https://community.brave.app/u/Reflection)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/does-brave-store-the-my-autofill-passwords-encrypted-by-default/437919/1 "2022-10-11T02:47:07Z")

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\*\*Operating System and Brave Version

Fedora linux with **v1.44.108** (Oct 6th, 2022)

Can you tell me how brave browser stores the password safe on my linux machine? Say if I launch the browser with enabled autofill passwords and sync feature, is there a file on my machine that I can open and read all those passwords? Or it’s an encrypted file that can’t be read directly?

Additional info:  
This is related to my recent kdewallet trying to encrypt brave browser data each time I launch the browser. The solution found online was to launch brave browser with the option “–password-store=basic”. I need to know the risk of doing this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/does-brave-store-the-my-autofill-passwords-encrypted-by-default/437919/2 "2022-11-10T02:47:14Z")

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Closed on November 10, 2022, 2:47am UTC

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