WCF Encrypting Connection Strings with aspnet_regiis

Question

I have a WCF Service talking to a web application. In the web.config files I want to encrpyt the connetion string section.

I'm using aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/WebAppFolder" for the web applications web.config and this works fine.

But when I do the same for the WCF service I get an internal server error when I try and connect to it via the web app.

AJM · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-19 13:31:19Z

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The problem was I needed to give my machine access to the configuration key

aspnet_regiis -pa "NetFrameworkConfigurationKey" "MYMACHINE\ASPNET"

answered Aug 19, 2009 at 13:31

AJM

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