(In reply to Andrew McCreight [:mccr8] from comment #1) > That is intentional. The data on disk is encrypted. Confirming this. In order to support more sophisticated use cases in Private Browsing Mode with larger data sets it was not viable to only store PBM data in memory, so the data is safely written to disk in an encrypted form but without persisting the encryption key to disk. By policy, PBM data is retained until the session is closed so the data continues to be available during the session. We clear the data at shutdown, or the even of unclean shutdown, we purge the data at the next startup.
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(In reply to Andrew McCreight [:mccr8] from comment #1) > That is intentional. The data on disk is encrypted. Confirming this. In order to support more sophisticated use cases in Private Browsing Mode with larger data sets it was not viable to only store PBM data in memory, so the data is safely written to disk in an encrypted form but without persisting the encryption key to disk. By policy, PBM data is retained until the session is closed so the data continues to be available during the session. We clear the data at shutdown, or in the event of unclean shutdown, we purge the data at the next startup.
(In reply to Andrew McCreight [:mccr8] from comment #1) > That is intentional. The data on disk is encrypted. Confirming this. In order to support more sophisticated use cases in Private Browsing Mode with larger data sets it was not viable to only store PBM data in memory, so the data is safely written to disk in an encrypted form but without persisting the encryption key to disk. By policy, PBM data is retained until the session is closed so the data continues to be available during the session. We clear the data at shutdown, or in the event of unclean shutdown, we purge the (encrypted) data at the next startup.