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What encryption method and strength is the password in the metabas

Author
20 Jun 2006 3:20 PM
Harold Miles
Does anyone know the method and strength IIS encrypts the anonymousUserName
password in the metabase.xml?

Thanks!

Author
20 Jun 2006 10:26 PM
Ken Schaefer
The current Window machineKey is used to encrypt the data. Not sure what
algorithm is used (one of the symmetric algorithms) or what key length.

Cheers
Ken

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"Harold Miles" <HaroldMi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know the method and strength IIS encrypts the
> anonymousUserName
> password in the metabase.xml?
>
> Thanks!