Thoughts: Private Key password stored in plain text in registry

Hi,

For some system an external ODBC connection has te be made, to transport customer (private) data back and forth.

Manual: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/How-to-set-up-ODBC-Driver-with-key-pair-authentication-to-connect-to-Snowflake-on-Windows](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/How-to-set-up-ODBC-Driver-with-key-pair-authentication-to-connect-to-Snowflake-on-Windows)

The connection is encrypted, we had to provide the private / public keypair.

The thing is: You have to add to registry, (User hive) the local location of the private key and the password in plain text.

That worries me a bit. Do you consider this to be safe and what could happend in a worst case scenario?

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