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I tried few blogs like Key Container and lil more but no success. Please guide me here. PawanKalakoti gmail. MVC 5 form for entring conneciton strings and ecrypt sayeedabas Dec MVC 5 project, after publish for deploy I need to develop windows form.

Malayali Coder. This would not work for IIS 7 and above as it will cause configuration errors in the config file. I just tried this on IIS 10 on my local machine and it works perfectly. It is not working for MVC4 on. Note: application has entityframe work connection. Encryption Key Storage. Hi, Thanks for this article. My question is "How and where Computer will store the encryption key"? We can encrypt Web. Config with the help of code vermavirender Oct We also have option to encrypt web.

Re: We can encrypt Web. Config with the help of code CHill60 Oct The link does not work. Vijay Kumar Raja Grandhi. Hi, This encryption is based on what algorithm. Is this encryption is safe to use for production. Thank you for your support in advance. Cheers, VJ. Works like a charm. Error vs MassimoPallara 7-May Hello, I have this is message error when i start application from Visual Studio Failed to decrypt using provider 'RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider'.

How i can fix this? Thanks modified 7-May am. My vote 5 Deepu S Nair 4-Jan Good one. It did my work! Altaf N Patel. Making all of the changes suggested by Scott will not protect anything since the attack would still only need to check the suorce of the returned content to see if it is a YSOD versus a This is certainly the best way to ensure protection from this vulnerability if you manage thousands of customs sites.

By "default" files outside of an application root do not have the same permissions. I am glad that you have been safe over the years. I hope you continue to be safe. That is your choice to not modify your web. Given that the only publicly available "fix" to this is the adjustment of the customErrors element in the web.

I will continue to push for people to update their web. NET team and through my additional guidance. It's the web. Assuming you mean to remove the access from the AppPool's set identity, not sure that is favorable to remove the worker process's identity from the decryption needs. I just want to find out whether my bank, credit card, etc access is safe, and I can. So is there a smart person amongst you that can quickly. DNN does somethin very risky - it stores the machine key unencrypted in the web.

Your information is safe at a financial institution because they use layers of safety including firewall and application layer gateways that inpect the network packets going in and out of their networks to ensure this attack can't even reach the web server. A script is not necessary, and if you actually had one, you'd probably end up being arrested for trying to hack your financial institution.

If you want to know if your bank is using ASP. NET, simply look for. Tomcat and Java will generally have something like. Like most people, you are falsely assuming that Microsoft's recommendation is actually a "fix". It does nothing to protect you from the vulnerability, it only slows down the currently published POET attack.

Once that is modified to inspect the response to look for the YSOD, the attack will work again. Force a error on your site and compare it to a and see if they are different and then decide if you are protected by Microsoft's recommendation. The best protection is to detect the attack by monitoring for event ID and blocking the IP address at your default gateway. How do you do this "monitoring for event ID and blocking the IP address at your default gateway".

If you just have the machinekey in the machine. The biggest problem here is ASP. NET has access to display the web. I believe by default the key is stored in the machine's certificate store, so a malicious user would need to have access to that too.

I'm not an expert but that's the gist of it. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Why encrypt a web config file? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 6 months ago. Active 10 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question.

The link to "this article" doesn't exists. I would really like to have a look at if possible. Yes that's more work than just reading the web. No, when you encrypt a web. The container is going to be specific to that site and application, and will not be accessible to other applications. If you control the system, then you can do whatever you want, including just decrypting the section.

There is no protection against the owner of the box. The biggest protection that you get here is against the web. If a malicious party gets a copy of the file, the sensitive data it contains can't be used to attack you if it is encrypted. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

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