Do they have a backup of the non-existent machine? If the backup tapes still exist, then maybe there's still hope.
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Friday, 20 January 2012 3:30 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Decrypting web.config file on different machine Damn :( plus no source code which means Reflector and Dr Who. I should have stayed away from the govt, they have no source but they have Reflector vspro.. go figure On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone confirm that ASP.NET config files are usually encrypted > with the machine key? Is that the only option? (something about > /Machine DPAPI). If so, then your only hope is to send the file to the > NSA or Dr Who for recovery -- Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bec Carter > Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:48 > To: ozDotNet > Subject: Decrypting web.config file on different machine > > Hi, I've been handed an older Asp.Net application with encrypted > sections in the web.config. The machine the file was encrypted on no > longer exists. Is there any way to decrypt it? > > Cheers > Bec >
