Dev Questions with Tim Corey

006 How Do I Encrypt a Connection String? How Do I Protect My Settings in a Desktop Application?

July 06, 2020 Tim Corey Season 1 Episode 6
Dev Questions with Tim Corey
006 How Do I Encrypt a Connection String? How Do I Protect My Settings in a Desktop Application?
Show Notes

We store connection strings and other sensitive data in appsettingsDOTjson or our app.config/webDOTconfig file. But how do we secure it? How do we ensure users cannot read our settings? Do we encrypt the settings file? Do we encrypt our connection strings? In this video, I am going to answer your questions around settings file security.

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