Protecting user passwords in desktop applications (Rev 2)

Question

I\'m making a twitter client, and I\'m evaluating the various ways of protecting the user\'s login information.

IMPORTANT: I need to protect the user\'s data from ot

Answer 1

I think you are missing the bigger picture here:

If the desktop is compromised, you're F#*%ED!

To steal a password from your program, a virus would have to be running on the system as administrator. If the virus has achieved that, stealing passwords from your program is way down on it's list of malicious things it wants to do.