Ok, I just found something that cause me to yell "AAAAACCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!" While trying to resolve an issue with an configuration/encryption library that we use here at work, I remembered reading a table of contents of a book I own that mentioned a section called "How to Encrypt a ConnectionString in the...

[I retitled this post. Admittedly the original idea was a little hairbrained... It was too early in the morning, I was contemplating a problem that is mentioned in the comments, and quite frankly I hadn't fully thought through everything... I will leave the rest of the post alone (and the comments)....

I'm sure everyone thinks I quit reading Ken's blog a while ago despite the truce. We definitely have a different opinion about a couple subjects (that I'm not going to bring up). We both evidently have a passion for security. (BTW, I definitely still read his blog despite some of our past disagreement...