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[Wolfer]

I have been using AHK to log into a variety of sites (not credit card or bank stuff; I use RoboForm for that), but still, I want to keep certain passwords hidden on my hard drive.

There is a freeware application, KeyNote (http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html), that works quite well for locking protected information. It uses Blowfish or IDEA encryption.

The advantage is that you can apply a password to a KeyNote file, and it will not open the file without the password (the password stays the same until you change it). Also, KeyNote will automatically lock/encrypt the file after a specified number of minutes of non-use, or you can even specify that it lock as soon as it's minimized.

My question is: can I program AHK to go to the KeyNote file where my passwords are stored, and look for the specific password I want? Presumably, I would need to have some keyword in from of my password in the Keynote file that AHK could look for. e.g.: I want to log into GMail. Instead of putting the password string in AHK, I put the password string in the Keynote file. AHK goes to the Keynote file, finds "GMail: 3#$kj9" retrieves the password 3#$kj9 (if the file is unlocked) and opens my GMail account. If the keynote file is locked, AHK would simply maximize the Keynote file which would then present the box for the password, and once the password was entered, AHK would proceed to finish entering it. If this is too much, AHK could simply pop a box saying: "Password file encrypted."

The advantage of this is that the Keynote file can be set to automatically lock if not used for a minute. This would make it almost impossible for anyone to snatch site passwords off your computer, and would be a great enhancement to AHK. Who knows, it might even replace the need for RoboForm, but I'm not expert enough in encryption security to know if KeyNote is safe enough.

[n-l-i-d]

There are numerous scripts on encryption. You therefore don't necessarily need something like KeyNote.