Take the 2-minute tour ×  how do you secure your passwords in
propertie Files? Encryption / Encoding?  Or do you use a
different approach to handle Database User / Passwords for
connection Strings?  Thanks for you help!  Update: Thanks for
your responses! In this special case we talk about two tier
architecture. We have many clients with direct connections to
the databases. Propertie Files are on a network share.
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connection strings to database I use mostly jndi connections.
And there I can encrypt the passwords:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-
howto.html#Digested_Passwords  share|improve this answer add
comment  you might have a closer look to aspnet_regiis. This
commandLine programm has some pretty nice parameters such aus
-pef (encrypt) and -pdf (decrypt).  so you may encrypt your
complete (or just a port of) xxx.config file while it stays
useable for your application.  share|improve this answer add
comment  I think for your usual three-