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I’ve a dataconfiguration.config encrypted file for an application on ASP.NET Framework 3.5
I need to change my connection string, how can i decrypted and read this file?
Security it’s not an issue, I’m on a development enviroment.
Any tip will be preciated.
Thanks.
A common way to encrypt ASP.NET configuration sections (such as ConnectionStrings) is to use Protected Configuration. However if your file does not read as XML, this method was not used or was not the only level of encryption used. It sounds like maybe there was a third party tool involved.
If I were you, I would probably create a new config file, and find everywhere in the project the old config file was referenced to point things at the new file.
If that is not possible, maybe you’d have better luck posting a question in a general cryptography category or doing some searches on the subject. I know some encryption can be identified by look at the encrypted data. Some encryption schemes are designed specifically to hide that though. Good luck.