C#: Ask User for a Password which is then stored in a SecureString

Question

In the small application that I\'m currently developing for a customer I need to ask the user for his windows login username, password and domain and then use those with

Answer 1

The reason the SecureString wants to accept one character at a time is that otherwise you would have the entire string before that and cause the string to be in memory. Thus, using a SecureString in this scenario kind of defeats the purpose.