From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:48:48 GMT
Subject: Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:32 PM, John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
> [Added back some of the CC's]
>
> Ted: we don't usually cull the CC list on the git mailing list.
>
> 2011/9/9 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> [snip]
>> MJG> ... and one for Git on Windows? It seems we're lacking both Win and OS X
>> MJG> developers here.
>>
>> Windows doesn't have a standard keychain service, does it?
>
> No, it doesn't, but you can use the wincrypt API which allows you to
> at least encrypt the password from the user's login credentials.  In
> particular, CryptProtectData() and CryptUnprotectData().  That way you
> can at least have the password stored encrypted on disk.

Actually, it seems recent Windows versions does have a credential
manager, including an API:

http://www.yanzzee.com/2009/09/windows-keychain.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374731(v=VS.85).aspx#credentials_management_functions