Unfortunately they've said they have nothing- the app hasn't been
touched since 2008 and before they moved everything over from xp to
windows 7. Should be fun!  Thanks anyway fellas


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>

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