Store several API accounts in Winforms .NET Application

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I amb developing a winforms c# application that communicates with several APIs (like Google, etc...). The user can connect to more than one account a time.

The thing is that I don't know where to store securely those accounts (username/password, oauth keypass, etc...). The first idea was to store the accounts information in the app.config (encrypted), but i think it is unsecure. The other idea was to store in the registry (like HKEY_CURRENT_USER/etc....Accounts/Google/0/user).

What do you recommend?

Thanx!

Posted 20-Dec-11 1:35am

Edu Rocafort

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Syed Salman Raza Zaidi · Answer 1 · 2011-12-20T02:15:00

Solution 1

The first approach is better ie to store information to app.config as when you need to change the info then it'll be easy and not risky to do it

Posted 20-Dec-11 2:15am

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi

erocafort · Answer 2 · 2011-12-20T02:44:00

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Well, the info is stored dinamically by the application. But, is secure to store the account info in app.config file?

Posted 20-Dec-11 2:44am

erocafort