According to Chrome help (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=...

mike-cardwell · on Sept 24, 2011

Confused at why no-encryption would even be an option for this data.

fjarlq · on Sept 24, 2011

Hmm, this feature seems buggy. I just tried enabling the option and it never finished. Had to kill it.

Filed a bug report: http://crbug.com/97939

mikewest · on Sept 24, 2011

Thanks. It's now sitting in the Sync team's queue.

codecaine · on Sept 24, 2011

wow, I was assuming that everything is stored encrypted on Googles servers. Would be cool if someone could clarify this, as the explanation in the Google help is a bit vague IMHO.

zobzu · on Sept 25, 2011

To my understanding they started providing the option to encrypt only very recently. My take is obviously that it's bad for the company policy to have this stuff encrypted (any regular guy would have had built-in encryption when making such a sync service). But on the other hand it would be pretty bad advertising when Firefox always had full encryption. Providing the option (but not making it mandatory) gives the proper advertising/evangelizing arguments.