---
title: "HOW TO: Encrypt the settings in your web.config"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/how-to-encrypt-the-settings-in-your-webconfig.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/22/how-to-encrypt-the-settings-in-your-webconfig.html"
published: "2003-09-22T07:01:00"
updated: "2003-09-22T07:01:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "We're currently looking into this subject matter, and this article was a big leap forward in our efforts: HOW TO: Use the ASP.NET Utility to Encrypt Credentials and Session State Connection Strings"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# HOW TO: Encrypt the settings in your web.config

By Roy Osherove September 22, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 22, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

We're currently looking into this subject matter, and this article was a big leap forward in our efforts:

[HOW TO: Use the ASP.NET Utility to Encrypt Credentials and Session State Connection Strings](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=329290)

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