Tag: password

Persisting sensitive information with PowerShell

It often happens that I need to persist a password or another sensitive information strings in a file or database. When it happens I can never recall what was exactly the command I used to do so in the past. That’s why I decided to encapsulate the two operation of encrypting and decrypting a string […]

PowerShell tips and tricks – Decoding SecureString

Introduction It is quite common to get across SecureString type in PowerShell. If you ever needed to supply a credential object, at example to the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet, then you for sure came across a SecureString. I will describe a couple of “tricks” that can be useful meanwhile working with SecureString objects. Creating a SecureString This […]