February 25, 2006 
In ASP.NET 2.0 you can now use the aspnet_regiis utility to encrypt and decrypt your connection strings. Here is an example:
My web.config contains the following section
<connectionStrings>
<add name="ORCLR2" connectionString="User Id=hr;Password=xe;Pooling=false;Data Source=ORCL;" providerName="System.Data.OracleClient" />
</connectionStrings>
</connectionStrings>
Open a command prompt and execute the following command:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "connectionStrings" "c:\_Apps20\demo\web\"
When you need to decrypt then execute the following command:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -pdf "connectionStrings" "c:\_Apps20\demo\web\"
ASP.NET 2.0 is awesome!
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