Windows 8 have the Password Vault, where all Internet Explorer 11 passwords is saved. And there is a Credentials Manager in the Control Panel where i can read and edit these credentials. The Credential Manager do unfortunately not have a search and i wanted to create a searchable third-party credential manager. I took a look at the Windows.Security.Credentials class to retrieve the credentials, but it only retrieves credentials from the current application.
Is there any way of retrieving all credentials created by the application Internet Explorer?
Edit: Expanded my question some, and added a possible solution:
This application claims to be able to retrieve and decrypt the passwords for Windows 8 and IE10. The author credits this C++ code for the solution.
I havent had time to test the application nor the code example yet. I will update the post when i have done so.
Never got around to test the application, but I found the exact answer I was looking for from Tim Bertalot at this question. He uses Powershell to list both usernames and passwords, so that should be easily searchable.
It does worry me that there is no longer any need to input your credentials a second time, like you have to do when using the gui, to retrieve the passwords. Makes it too easy for anyone to get access to an unlocked workstation and with three lines of code export all passwords to a file, but i'm no security expert.