where to decrypt password in the web application and how to use it for authentication?

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Hi friends...

i have stored password in encrypted form into the web config file beneath identity attribute.
My question is where i have to decrypt it in the web application and how?

<authentication mode="Windows">
<identity impersonate="true" username="domainname/username" password="AQAAANCMnd8BFdERjHoAwE/Cl+sBAAAAewI1HqfAWUi9c5Yr+jPQpAQAAAACAAAAAAADZg">

I appreciate your help

Posted 29-Mar-12 0:17am

sanjayv.gade

Updated 29-Mar-12 0:28am

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Keith Barrow 29-Mar-12 6:33am

How did you encrypt the password? If you did it using asp.net's IIS registration tool (Aspnet_regiis.exe) you shouldn't have to do any other work.

ZurdoDev 29-Mar-12 8:24am

You need to explain more. The answer to your question is you need to decrypt it when you need it.

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abhijeetgupta1988 · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-29T09:47:00

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I do encryption of password in my security class and store into database, and in my login page i access the respective values from databse if they match with the encrypted value entered by user,no need to decrypt ;)!

Posted 29-Mar-12 9:47am

abhijeetgupta1988

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Keith Barrow 30-Mar-12 14:24pm

I don't think that this is what the op needs, but it isn't 100% clear what he does need. My understanding is that he needs to encrypt a password (eg for the database itself) in web.config

abhijeetgupta1988 30-Mar-12 14:38pm

I just shared the scenario of authenticating user as his query was "where to decrypt" the password ;)