Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Pradeep Mayakontla

Feng Yue

Justin Allen Hutchings

Lakshmi Narayana Mummidi

Erik O Peterson

Priya Amod Samnerkar

Kara Lane Ottewell

Techniques described herein provide enhanced management of passwords for applications and services. Generally described, the techniques disclosed herein leverage the strength of existing security measures built into operating systems to generate and communicate encrypted passwords to enable components of a computing system to operate with a heightened level of security. In some configurations, the encryption of a password using strong keys that are associated with an identity improve the security of a computing device as well as improve the security, processing, and communication of secured documents and printing schemas. In some configurations, passwords for accessing documents are encrypted and embedded in printing schemas. The encrypted password is communicated between modules of an operating system in a process for generating PDF files having improved security. The claimed techniques also leverage components of existing systems without the requirement of additional libraries.

Enhanced management of passwords for printing applications and services

Graphics primitive and color channel techniques are described. In one or more implementations, image data is processed by a computing device to form a plurality of pixels and corresponding one or more color channels usable to define a color for a respective said pixel. A graphics primitive type is identified by the computing device associated with one or more of the pixels in the processed image data. The graphics primitive type is assigned by the computing device to the one or more pixels using at least one color channel.

Graphics primitive and color channels

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