Storing My Amazon Credentials in C# Desktop App

Question

I\'m Looking at using Amazon S3 and simpleDB in a desktop application.

The main issue I have is that I either need to store my aws credentials in the application or use

Answer 1

The main issue I have is that I either need to store my aws credentials in the application or use some other scheme.

Does Windows have a system-wide service similar to Apple's Keychain Manager? If so, put your credentials there. If not, perhaps you can build a watered-down version of it for storing a strongly-encrypted version of your AWS credentials.

Does the signature require all the data from a file thats being uploaded?

The HMAC SHA-1 signature is an encoded encryption of the HTTP request headers. This signature is a hash value and will be very short relative to your data, only 20 bytes long.