aspnet_setreg - HOWTO: Read encrypted data from registry

From: Matthew Griffore (Griffore_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:45:05 -0700

I have used aspnet_setreg to encrypt a connection string in the registry.

aspnet_setreg -k:<subkey> -c:"CONNECTION STRING"

I then gave the ASPNET account read access to the <subkey> in the registry
using regedt32.

I added the sqlConnectionString application key in my web.config file. When
I tried to execute my code, I received the following error:
"Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification"

Can someone help me please?

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