WCF Entity Framework encrypt connection strings using web.config transforms

Question

I am using .Net 4.5, VS2012, EF 6.0

I have the following web.config files in a wcf service solution:

web.config
web.DEV.config
web.Test.Config
web.UAT.config
web.Prod.config

The last 4 are web.config transformation files.

I know I can use aspnet_regiis -pef to encrypt the web.config and it works just fine.

How will I encrypt the transformation files?

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-24 19:00:21Z

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You could run aspnet_regiis -pef on the transformed web.config after it is published.

answered Mar 24, 2015 at 19:00

Alex

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I understand that this works very well on my machine. But how will I make sure it works fine on other machines? How do I create a key that is common?

This link describes how you can share the encryption key between different servers: jimmylarkin.net/post/2013/04/09/…