Unrecognized configuration section membership.

hi,

i'm trying to make the email and securtity question and answer in my create user wixard but when adding this code to my web.config file and running it i get this error
Unrecognized configuration section membership.

<!--

The <authentication> section enables configuration

of the security authentication mode used by

ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
-->
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