Securing your connection string

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What i sthe best way, in you opinion, to encode or protect your database connection strings on a shared server?

Posted 4-Aug-10 0:55am

tyronb

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DaveAuld 4-Aug-10 7:04am

That depends totally on what you mean by shared? is this an ASP.net application on a webserver you are referring? and the webserver hosts multiple apps managed by different people?

tyronb 4-Aug-10 7:45am

yes exactly that, sorry i should have specified that at the start

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Vaibhav J · Answer 1 · 2010-08-04T01:22:00

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Hi,

You can encrypt your config file or the file in which you stored connection string using microsoft encryption class.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.encrypt.aspx

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Thanks
Vaibhav J

Posted 4-Aug-10 1:22am

Vaibhav J

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tyronb 4-Aug-10 7:46am

will have a look at this tonight. thank you