[RESOLVED] How do you all encrypt connection strings in WEB.CONFIG?

How do you all encrypt connection strings in WEB.CONFIG?

TIA.

Found this link - and it worked perfectly

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...on/ba-p/830094

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Run Command Prompt as Administrator

Go to C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319

Perform the command below to encrypt the connection string in your web.config:

ASPNET_REGIIS -pef "connectionStrings" "D:\inetpub\wwwroot\applicationFolder"

Open web.config and check if the connection string is encrypted

Test the site

If you want to decrypt it back, run this command:

ASPNET_REGIIS -pdf "connectionStrings" "D:\inetpub\wwwroot\applicationFolder"

Open the web.config and check if the connection string is decrypted

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This is what I used to do when I worked with asp.net
Note that I remember that this could work also with app.config but it's been sometimes so I'm not saying this with 100% certainty.
Also note that I'm not sure that you can decrypt on another server machine like that, so you might also want to read this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...ectedfrom=MSDN
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Fo...csharplanguage