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[news.eclipse.newcomer] Encrypt a username and password for external site

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post. I couldn't seem to find a category that specifically had to do security so I thought I would post here.

Basically, I have a plugin that needs to store login credentials to an external site. Right now I am storing the username and a password in an object in clear text, which is obviously not secure. I was wondering if anyone knew of a secure way to store a username an password pair in an encrypted form and then decrypt it on the fly when it needs to make a connection to the external site. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks,

Andy