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Monday, October 02, 2006

.NET 2.0: On-demand Configuration Encryption

In .NET 2.0, apsnet_regiis can encrypt and decrypt sections of web.config and machine.config using RSA, DPAPI, or any other custom encryption provider. However, how do we encrypt/decrypt a custom application configuration (e.g. app.config of a WinForms application)? We are in luck, since the System.Configuration namespace provides everything we need to accomplish this task. The following class, for example, can be used to encrypt/decrypt any .NET configuration file:

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