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

Upon further contemplation I think I found a way. I will use ASP.net authentication for my application desktop application, store their credentials online and let Internet Explorer's password manager handle the local caching of this secondary pair or credentials for me.

I will just have to have them authenticate through a Facebook-API like form during the first login.