Password Monitor: Safeguarding passwords in Microsoft Edge
One of the biggest pillars for Microsoft Edge is trust. Today, to further bolster that trust while keeping our customers safe, we introduce a new feature called Password Monitor. The feature notifies users if any of their saved passwords have been found in a third-party breach. All this is done while ensuring Microsoft doesn’t learn the user’s passwords. The underlying technology ensures privacy and security of the user’s passwords, which means that neither Microsoft nor any other party can learn the user’s passwords while they are being monitored.
This unique security feature is possible due to pioneering cryptography research and technology incubation done here at Microsoft Research. The feature is a culmination of our research on homomorphic encryption and its practical