Encrypting strings in an ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file
Today, a small group of us learned heaps walking through the WCF hands-on labs from PDC05.
In the course of walking through the WCF exercises, we stumbled across an encrypted connection string in a Web.Config file. Encrypting that string seemed like a good idea to me, but we didn't know how to go about encrypting it with ease. Scott Forsyth's weblog contained the gem:
https://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2005/07/29/421063.aspx
ASP.NET 2.0 will automatically decrypt the strings when it comes across them.