Is this secure?

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-02-25 09:03 AM, mk wrote:

> 2. The app will have GUI and it will be locally installed; it's not
> going to be web app, it will just be online in the sense of downloading
> data frequently from the net.

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.

-- 
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