Is this secure?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Feb 28 02:28:39 EST 2010


In article <mailman.247.1267115557.4577.python-list at python.org>,
Robert Kern  <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>If you are storing the password instead of making your user remember
>it, most platforms have some kind of keychain secure password
>storage. I recommend reading up on the APIs available on your targeted
>platforms.

Are you sure?  I haven't done a lot of research, but my impression was
that Windows didn't have anything built in.
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