Asp Net Machine Key Generator

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Have you ever needed to generate a MachineKey to use in your application's configuration file or in machine.config? You may need a MachineKey in several scenarios. One of them is the scenario where you deploy your application in a web farm. One another scenario is to need to encrypt Forms Authentication tickets.

Jul 31, 2012 If the MachineKey isn't configured in the web.config, where does the default value get pulled from? I checked the Machine.config for ASP.NET 4.0 and it wasn't there. My team wants to set this value at a higher level than the web.config in case one of our developers forgets to add the machine key to the web.config. Apr 17, 2017 ASP.NET Forums / General ASP.NET / Web Forms / ValidationKey and DecryptionKey under MachineKey configuration in Web. ValidationKey and DecryptionKey under MachineKey configuration in Web.config RSS.

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Jul 31, 2012  Easiest way to generate MachineKey. Double click the Machine Key icon in ASP.NET settings in the middle pane: 4). If the MachineKey isn't configured in the web.config, where does the default value get pulled from? I checked the Machine.config for ASP.NET 4.0 and it wasn't there. My team wants to set this value at a higher level than the. Apr 26, 2011  Specify MachineKeyVersion.Net1 to target ASP.NET version 1.1, or MachineKeyVersion.Net2 to target ASP.NET version 2.0 and later. The Generate method starts by calling the GenerateKey method to generate a string of random values of the specified length. It then formats the final element according to the specified target version.

You have some options to generate a MachineKey: Sims 3 cd key generations.

  • You can build the sample application from the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312906
  • You can search in Bing for 'MachineKey generator' and use an online service. Honestly I wouldn't rely on third party online services for generating MachineKey because I wouldn't have any control over them and I couldn't make sure that if they wouldn't log my IP address and MachineKey in a database to use that later - yes, I know it sounds like 'paranoia' 🙂
There is one another way which I have learned from one of my customers today. It was over there waiting in IIS user interface but I never gave it a try before (shame on me). You can use IIS 7.5 user interface to generate the MachineKey section and save it in the web.config of your application / root web.config file. Steps are quite easy:

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2) If you need to generate and save the MachineKey for all your applications select the server name in the left pane, in that case you will be modifying the root web.config file (which is placed in the .NET framework folder). If your intention is to create MachineKey for a specific web site/application then select the web site / application from the left pane. In that case you will be modifying the web.config file of your application.
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. If you did not configure a specific MachineKey and it is generated automatically you will see the following options:
5) Now you can click Generate Keys on the right pane to generate random MachineKeys. When you click Apply, all settings will be saved in the web.config file.