The roots of this problem are in Microsoft Outlook. For whatever reason, be it a bug in Outlook, incompetent IT professionals at my school, or some combination of the two, Outlook will not for the life of it save my Exchange password, even if I click the box that says "Save my password". I found this unbelievable irritating, so I searched the internet. Although there were numerous suggestions on how to fix the problem, none worked. Finally, I found a script that detects the Outlook password window and enters your password manually. It's perfect! Except for one thing....it stores your saved password in plaintext! This simply won't do!
So here is the problem I have set out to solve: either find a way for a program to save and retrieve a password SECURELY with no user intervention, prove that it is not possible, or determine that this question is open and has deserves much of my future focus.
To clarify exactly the functionality I want: I want a program to save a password, then be able to store that password so that no user can access it when it is stored. Although anyone with access to the program would be able to effectively use the stored password at will, they at least couldn't discover the password.
And so I begin.
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