In my Windows application, I'm trying to encrypt the connection string line of the app.config file, the connection string string of my app.config file
<connectionStrings>
<add name="SQLiteDB" connectionString="Data Source=|DataDirectory|database.s3db;
Version=3;password=mypassword;" providerName="System.Data.Sqlite"/>
</connectionStrings>
and in the .cs file I encrypt it as
Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(Application.ExecutablePath);
ConfigurationSection section = config.GetSection("connectionStrings") as ConnectionStringsSection;
if (!section.IsReadOnly())
{
section.SectionInformation.ProtectSection("RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider");
section.SectionInformation.ForceSave = true;
config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full);
}
after running this code, I get an encrypted connection string in another app.config, this app.config file is in the bin \ debug folder, and the name of this .config file is nameofapplication.exe.config.
The problem is that I created the setup for this application and run it on another machine if it gives an error:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Failed to decrypt using provider 'RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider'. Error message from the provider: The RSA key container could not be opened.
I am doing this for the first time, so I don’t know how to solve it, I’m very stuck in it.
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