One of the first big challenges in building an Air application, that is supposed to be functional on and off line, is the entry point into the application, the login. In this Post, I will explain how I built the Login for an application, including use of shared local objects, that logs the user also in, when he is offline. To give the user the minimum security, I will use for the Login the encrypted local store feature in Adobe AIR

derived from the article on Adobe.com from Kevin Hoyt.