Where does Internet Explorer store saved passwords?

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Published on 2010-06-11T14:23:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 14:32 UTC
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Where does Internet Explorer store saved passwords?

And since this is a programming site, i'm not literally asking for the location where IE stores passwords, but which API ie uses to save passwords.

At first i assumed that Microsoft was using the standard api:

which is used to save domain and generic program/web-site credentials. CredRead/CredWrite turn around and use

to encrypt data with the current user's account. CredRead/CredWrite then store the data in some magical location, which contents you can see from the control panel:

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But i don't see IE passwords in there. So ie doesn't store passwords using CredRead/CredWrite.

What api does IE use to store passwords, and if it uses CryptProtectData, where does it then store the protected data?

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