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Secret key in clear text in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\1Password\1password.sqlite
1Password v8 seem to store its local data in C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\1Password\1password.sqlite.
With any sqlite client, it's dead easy to extract the secret key(s) of your account(s) with an ...
This is pretty funny lol.
So I was curious what a 1P7 db stored to compare. I had a work computer I had never upgraded to 1P8 to do a sample test and here's what I found.
They store your encrypted master password. (no biggy)
and they also store an encrypted login which I ASSUME is the secret key but hashed along with some other things. I found no traces of the secret key or anything that would cause a hacker who was in your system to access your vaults. IIRC 1P7 along with many others (maybe even 1P8) dump your entire password vault into memory on unlock, which means in theory, a program running in the background could memory dump if they had privileges and gain your passwords that way.
That being said. Storing your supposedly secret key, the most important piece of your entire vault security in plain text is unreal and further proves 1P8 is a joke compared to 1P7.
