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I would like to add the machineKey to my machine.config since I am working with programmatic encryption of web.config connection strings in a web farm scenario.
My question is, where do I place the machineKey in the machine.config file? There isn’t one already there that I can replace, I suspect it’s being autogenerated, so where should it be placed?
Just place it under
<system.web>If you need a key generated, use the process as shown in this SO post