How to encrypt password in a web.config file

Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Zeus, true, but the first two in the 'Related' box will do. Thanks for all the responses. I'm voting it for closing. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here are the commands to encrypt web. Patrick D'Souza 3, 2 2 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Jalpesh Vadgama Jalpesh Vadgama It didn't work for me until I removed that.

And make sure to run with admin privileges. How can I run this command? The programmatic way can be handy, particularly if you also like to encrypt app. Perform encryption. Yes Richard making it machine wide makes more easy! Hi RichardOD, my question is.. If doing it programmatically. When do I need to encrypt and decrypt the webconfig file? On the server you can use cmd. As I said, the RSA provider by default relys on keys that can be shared among several machines, however this is not the default behavior so I can not share a file encrypted on machine A with the machine B.

I will receive an error as follows:. The -pe option and the string "connectionStrings" to encrypt the connectionStrings element of the Web. NET automatically decrypts the contents of the Web.

Therefore, no additional steps are required to decrypt the encrypted configuration settings for use by other ASP. NET features or to access the values in your code. However, you can follow these steps, if you want to view the decrypted settings. To keep the sensitive information from the Web site private, delete the walkthrough.

You can decrypt the encrypted Web. The syntax is the same as the syntax for encrypting Web. The appropriate provider is identified using the configProtectionProvider element for the protected section. Now We will connect to a database. Now it is time to add our connection string, hope you got your data source of the database we already connected. The connection string property must be placed under configuration tag in your web config file.

Here is mine. Now we will create a web page and in the page load event we will fetch this connection string and write it as a response. To start the process, you must open your command window with the admin privilege. Then type the following command. This command will narrate you to the framework version folder given.

Now right click on your project and click open folder in file explorer and then copy the location. Now please go back to your command prompt and type the command as follows. Please be noted that the text connectionStrings is case sensitive.

So please be careful while you type the commands. Now I am going back to our application and see the config file.