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

You can encrypt the config file and/or use ProtectedData. Here's my blog post on both.

UPDATE: You might be a be to encrypt your app.config as part of an install step. Sample here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/security/encryptstrings.aspx. Not great, but the best I've found so far.