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Data Protection API
The Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI) is mainly used to
symmetrically
encrypt asymmetric private keys using a user or system secret as a significant contribution of entropy.
The DPAPI keys to encrypt a user's RSI keys are stored under
%appdata%\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-21-…
.
See also
DPAPI is used for example to encrypt the
the
database master key
of SQL Server
.
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