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I automated my Yahoo! login process with AutoHotkey.

It works fine, but problem is that when running this .ahk file, anybody can open the script and see the password.

Is there a way I could encrypt this password?

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If you encrypt the password somehow, AHK will have to decrypt it automatically. Once again, this makes your password available to anyone. – Dennis Jan 17 at 19:58
no on the gui where it pasted it looks **** so that won't be problem. – vishalsharma Jan 18 at 5:21
1. Inspecting the AHK source code will tell you the encrypted password and how to decrypt it. 2. In Chrome, e.g., you can right-click the password field, click *Inspect element and change the input's type from *password to text. No more asterisks. – Dennis Jan 18 at 11:40

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AutoHotkey can compile your AHK script to an executable (.exe) with its build-in tool ahk2exe.
The compiler encrypts your source data and its hard to decompile it. (But its not impossible)

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Edit: To my knowledge it is not possible to just encrypt a single string within a script and leave the rest untouched. Encrypting the whole script will be the way to go.

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thanks for the answer but this i already know!! – vishalsharma Jan 17 at 13:10

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