Leak-proof history-removal-on-shutdown #3549
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priority/P5
Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon.
privacy/feature
User-facing privacy- & security-focused feature work.
privacy
In #492, we added an option to clear browsing state when you quit Brave. In rare cases when the browser process is killed (mostly on slower machines or after a crash), we don't have a chance to clean up. This leaves browsing state on disk, despite the intent to clean it up. We could leakproof this by (ex) encrypting that state on disk with a key that's only stored in memory, so that even an unexpected termination doesn't leave history. This would have the added benefit of likely not making a forensically-recoverable trace either. But also that's a lot of work for a slim edge-case benefit.
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