[RESOLVED] [02/03] hiding the AppSettings in web.config file

[tutus]

Hi,

Is there any way to hide or encrypt the web.config AppSettings in asp.net 1.1 applications?

something close to what we do in asp.net 2.0 through: aspnet_regiis.exe -pe ...etc

in the asp.net 1.1 what we basically want to do is hide or encrypt the connectionstring that s stored in an AppSettings element .

Thanks for any suggestions

[nemaroller]

For .NET 1.1, you need to encrypt the value manually using CryptoProvider (TripleDES is common), and have the web application decrypt it and store it in the cache on startup.