Keeping secrets with ASP.Net
Remembered sometime back, was having an interesting discussion on Windows Data Protection APIs (DPAPI) with some peers.
For those interested in protecting your little secrets (E.g. connection strings) for the ASP.NET applications you are building, check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/06/05/extremeaspnet/default.aspx