Saving and Retrieving passwords

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From: Martin Howell
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:20

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I have an application where I want to get the user to enter a password
(Which will be used to access a web page). I want to be able to store this
password somewhere where no-one can get at it except my program, so I can
use it again without the user re-entering it.

Is there an API function somewhere that does this sort of thing, maybe using
the Windows password file, or do I have to encrypt it somehow and squirrel
it away in the registry somewhere myself?

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