Opera is a great browser, but one feature it's been lacking for a very long time is the ability to view the passwords you've saved with the Opera password manager ("The wand").

There are a few closed-source and Windows-only programs out there. An open-source multi-platform utility to read the wand seemed like a good idea :-)

operapass can be run from in a terminal or with a basic GUI. It should find the wand.dat in your Opera profile directory, but you can also specify it as the first parameter (i.e. operapass-tk path/to/wand.dat

There are two utilities: operapass-dump to dump the password file to your stdout (i.e. terminal) and operapass-tk for a very basic TKinter GUI.

It should run on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX.

Notes

• operapass can currently only read wand files without a master password. Note you can remove and (re-)add a master password at any time in the Opera preferences.

• operapass will use the M2Crypto module when available, and fall back to pyDes (bundled) when it's not. Note that M2Crypto is much faster.

Credits

Martin Tournoij <martin@arp242.net>

The Opera wand format is described here: http://securityxploded.com/operapasswordsecrets.php this information was an extremely useful starting point.

operpass also includes pyDes from http://twhiteman.netfirms.com/des.html

Status

Alpha quality ... Result of a single two evenings :-)