Generate Machine Key Asp Net 4.5
Re: machineKey element configuration
This is a nice addition in 4.5. In my Cookie-based TempData provider I used this exact technique — I didn’t want to reinvent crypto or introduce new keys, so leveraging the ASP.NET machine key APIs made a lot of sense. This tool will generate a valid random machine key used by ASP.NET for encryption, decryption, validation of forms-authentication and view-state data, and other purposes. Select your target version of ASP.NET and click the Generate Keys button.
- Jul 31, 2012 Steps are quite easy: 1) Open IIS manager. 2) If you need to generate and save the MachineKey for all your applications select. 3) Double click the Machine Key icon in ASP.NET settings in the middle pane: 4) MachineKey section will be read from your configuration file and be shown in the UI.
- I'm hosting two web apps in IIS 7.5. They must share the ASP.NET Forms Authentication cookie. Since I do not want to put the machine key in the Web.config (I am not using web farms and I don't want the key visible in the web.config file), I've set it to auto-generate.
- Jan 04, 2017 Generate MachineKey using Windows PowerShell. In this post we will see how we can Generate MachineKey using Windows PowerShell from our local development machine.
- ASP.NET machineKey Generator This is an application that will generate a valid machineKey block with random, secure, hard-coded keys that you can paste inside the web in your web.config or machine.config file.
- Oct 23, 2012 Transforming the auto-generated machine key, redux. When ASP.NET is configured to use 4.5 machine key compatibility mode, the manner in which keys are generated and transformed changes drastically. I’ll discuss the symmetric encryption key transformation in detail, but the same applies to the validation key transformation.
Apr 12, 2012 11:31 PMSteven Cheng - MSFTLINK
Hi pisd,
/recover-my-files-key-generator.html. The <machineKey> is used by many ASP.NET features like forms authentication, viewstate, membership, etc.. And if you use the default 'auto-generated' setting, each time the application restarts, some of the state management related data of your ASP.NET application(like page's viewstate ) and forms authentication ticket at client-side will become invalid.
#How To: Configure MachineKey in ASP.NET 2.0 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649308.aspx
/sims-4-cd-key-generator-download-free.html. #Explained: Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647070.aspx
And it is surely good idea to have a fixed machinekey for your ASP.NET web application so as to avoid the issues that might happen for 'auto-generated' case. And for generating machinekey, you can just create it yourself just like you create the strong-name key files for signing your .NET assemblies.
And regarding on the error you encounter, it has explained that for using encrypted password, you have to supply a definte machinekey so that the runtime can help generate a fixed key (for encrypting/decrypting the password) derived from the machineKey.