Handling Credentials Safely in PowerShell — Banishing Plaintext Passwords from Your Scripts (archived 2026-08-30)
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Abstract
A practical walkthrough of moving plaintext passwords out of PowerShell scripts and into safe storage: what SecureString really is and where it stops, how Export-Clixml stores credentials with DPAPI, and where SecretManagement/SecretStore fit. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/powershell-credential-secretmanagement/, as published on 2026-08-30. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-07-18.
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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-30
Authors: Go Komura
Institutions: Fujikura (United States)