Tweak UI - Password encryption and autologon

From: Larry Williams (LarryWilliams_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:35:05 -0700

I'm writing a program that will accept a userid and password to do an
autologon after a restart using the following registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

 DefaultUserName "your_username"
 DefaultPassword "your_password"
 AutoAdminLogon "1"

However, if for some reason my program doesn't run properly and remove the
userid/password when it's finished then I want to ensure that the password
can't just be read from the registry. Therefore I need to know how to do the
same thing that Tweak UI does and store an encrypted version of the password.

Any ideas?

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