Where does Internet Explorer store saved passwords?
- by Ian Boyd
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:
CredRead
CredWrite
which is used to save domain and generic program/web-site credentials. CredRead/CredWrite turn around and use
CryptProtectData
CryptUnprotectData
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:
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?