On 2010-02-28 01:28 AM, Aahz wrote:
In article<mailman.247.1267115557.4577.python-l...@python.org>,
Robert Kern<robert.k...@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.

You're right, not built-in, but Windows does provide enough crypto services for a cross-platform Python implementation to be built:

  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco

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