Windows.Security.Credentials Namespace
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Provides a common way to securely store and manage your passcodes, passphrases, and other identification information.
Note
Enterprise credentials can't be roamed.
The Credential locker sample gives specific scenarios of storing and retrieving credentials.
Classes
| KeyCredential |
Represents a key credential, an RSA, 2048-bit, asymmetric key that represents a user's identity for an application. |
| KeyCredentialAttestationResult |
Represents the results of the KeyCredential.GetAttestationAsync method. |
| KeyCredentialManager |
Contains methods for basic management of key credentials. |
| KeyCredentialOperationResult |
Represents the result of a key credential operation. |
| KeyCredentialRetrievalResult |
Represents the result of a key credential retrieval. |
| PasswordCredential |
Represents the password credential store. |
| PasswordCredentialPropertyStore |
Represents the password credential property store. This class and its members are reserved for internal use and are not intended to be used in your code. |
| PasswordVault |
Represents a Credential Locker of credentials. Lockers are specific to a user. Apps running in an AppContainer (for example, UWP apps) can only access the contents of their own locker (for the current user). Apps not running in an AppContainer (for example, regular Desktop apps) can access all the user's lockers, including those of AppContainer apps. |
| WebAccount |
Identifies an account from a web account provider. |
| WebAccountProvider |
Represents a web account authentication provider. |
Interfaces
| IWebAccount |
Enables a class to represent an account from a web account provider. |
Enums
| KeyCredentialAttestationStatus |
Represents key credential attestation statuses. |
| KeyCredentialCreationOption |
Represents the options for creating key credentials. |
| KeyCredentialStatus |
Represents the status of a key credential request. |
| WebAccountPictureSize |
Represents the sizes of a web account picture. |
| WebAccountState |
Describes the state of a WebAccount object. |