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Author What encryption method and strength is the password in the metabas
Harold Miles

2006-06-20, 1:23 pm

Does anyone know the method and strength IIS encrypts the anonymousUserName
password in the metabase.xml?

Thanks!
Ken Schaefer

2006-06-21, 1:31 am

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

"Harold Miles" <HaroldMiles@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!


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