Author: davidayres | Posted on: 6/11/2010 8:09:13 AM | Views : 454

I know that you really should do this, but for a game I'm creating where the data will reside in a SQL Server database that will be hosted on GoDaddy.com, where they make it impossible to use RSA encryption from my research to encrypt your connection string information in the web.config, should I really worry about this too much?  I hear about tools that hackers can use to get my web.config or download my code somehow, of course I have no idea how they would do that or anything, but is this really something I need to worry about, or is that just a very rare thing that you need to protect yourself against just in that very rare occurence?
Is it really that easy to hack an ASP.Net website?  Is it extremely simple to do and happens all the time which is why you always need to encrypt that information?
Is there another way to encrypt your web.config information versus using the DPAPI or RSA methods if a shared hosting provider won't allow you to use those m ...

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