Passwords
Sverk keeps passwords on this computer only: it has no Google account and no sync. Below is where to find them, how to bring them over from another browser, and what leaves the computer when Sverk checks a password against a breach database.
Where passwords are kept
Saved passwords live in your Sverk profile on this computer, encrypted. Windows holds the encryption key, tied to your Windows account.
You cannot sign in to a Google account in Sverk, so passwords are not synced with Google, nor with us: they do not reach your other devices by themselves, and we never see them.
Password Manager
All saved passwords are in the Password Manager: Settings → Autofill and passwords → Password Manager, or the address chrome://password-manager. There you can search for a password, view it, change it, add one by hand or delete it.
Before it shows or copies a password, Sverk asks you to confirm it is you: your Windows PIN, fingerprint or password.
If other people use this computer, turn on Use Windows Hello when filling passwords in the Password Manager's settings. Then filling a password in on a site needs the same confirmation.
Saving and filling in
When you sign in on a site, Sverk offers to save the password, and next time fills in the username and password itself. To stop the offers, turn off Offer to save passwords and passkeys in the Password Manager's settings.
Breach check
When you sign in on a site, Sverk checks whether the password has appeared in a known data breach, using the Have I Been Pwned database. If it has, Sverk warns you and suggests changing it.
The password itself goes nowhere. Sverk computes its hash (SHA-1) and sends only the first five characters of it, to Sverk's own server. The server answers with every breached hash that starts with them, and the full hash is compared with that list on your computer. The username and the site are never sent. Our server queries Have I Been Pwned in its own name, so the database never sees your IP address.
To check all saved passwords at once, open Password Checkup in the Password Manager: it also shows passwords you reuse on several sites and ones that are too weak.
To turn the check at sign-in off: Settings → Privacy and security → Security → Warn you if a password was compromised in a data breach. What the server keeps and for how long is in the privacy policy.
Moving passwords from another browser
On first run Sverk brings over bookmarks and history from Chrome, Yandex Browser, Edge and other browsers, but not passwords. Passwords move as a file:
- In the old browser, find the export in its password settings and save the passwords to a CSV file.
- In Sverk, open the Password Manager, choose Settings on the left, then Import passwords → Select file, and pick that file.
- Check that the passwords are there, then delete the CSV file: it holds the passwords in plain text.
To take passwords out of Sverk, use Export passwords → Download file in the same settings. It appears once the Password Manager holds at least one password.
Passkeys
On the computer, passkeys are kept by Windows Hello, not by Sverk: when a site offers to sign in with a passkey, Sverk hands the request to Windows. Passkeys are managed in Windows settings — the Manage passkeys in Windows Hello button in the Password Manager's settings takes you there.
You can also sign in with a passkey kept on your phone. The computer and the phone then reach each other through a Google server, as the privacy policy says.
On other devices
Sverk does not sync passwords between devices. On Android, Sverk keeps passwords itself, encrypted. On iPhone and iPad, Sverk keeps no passwords: the system stores and fills them, in the Passwords app.
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