PowerShell Script Password Encryption

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PowerShell Script Password Encryption

I'm posting this because it took me two days to figure out. I needed a script I could run in a room full of backseat drivers. I couldn't hardcode the username and password into the script, and I didn't want to use Read-Host with people looking over my shoulder. This is what I came up with:
$Creds = Get-Credential
$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions -Property @{
    Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Sftp
    HostName = "sftp.url.com"
    UserName = $Creds.UserName
    Password = (ConvertFrom-SecureToPlain -SecurePassword $Creds.Password) 
    SshHostKeyFingerprint = "redacted gobbledegook"
}
Works like a charm. I get a username/password popup from Get-Credential where the password shows as *****, and the (ConvertFrom-SecureToPlain -SecurePassword $Creds.Password) converts the password into something the SFTP server understands.

Hope this helps someone.

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