I have a Web Application that as part of the work it does is query several other applications. These query's are from the Web App for some data and for report generation there is a windows service that runs these jobs over night or on week-ends. All these
other applications have login credentials required for access. I am attempting to determine the best way to do encryption and decryption of these credentials stored in SQL Server. So far most all the examples I have looked at have used the MachineKey in the
web.config, However the API for that functionality is not available to a windows service. Others use keys embedded into a class.
This is all, behind the firewall usage, but none the less we are talking admin credentials here so I am looking for suggestions as to what would be a good option.
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