How to Encrypt Data Inside a web.config

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 09:32 Written by David Bauernschmidt Sunday, 11 November 2012 12:00

Several weeks ago I was offered an opportunity to write articles for Arvixe. This is not only an exciting offer because of the vast number of people that will read it, but also because Arvixe is a great company. Their support has been impeccable and their desire to help has far exceeded my thoughts. (This is not because my thoughts are low).

My goal in writing articles is to provide an avenue that other developers can come to experience Arvixe in the way I am. Most of my how to articles will be around the Arvixe asp.net platform but most can be adjusted to accommodate other hosting providers. The great thing about development is that there are many ways to accomplish the same task.

Someone once asked me this question, “David, what is the best way to implement {fill in the blank}”. To which my response was, “Yes”. As you read my articles if you have a different way than just drop me a note. After all this is how we learn. So here goes the first one……

Before we get to the specific example, let me say, that Googling, Yahooing, Binging (is that a word?) will return many options so this not the only one, it is the one that I find is the most versatile. It can be used for many things.