Hey,

I am trying to specify an Encrypted password in the membership provider, but I get this error:

You must specify a non-autogenerated machine key to store password in the encrypted format. Either specify a different passwordFormat, or change machineKey configuration to use a non-autogenerated decryption key.

Here is the setup in web.config:

<membership defaultProvider="SQLProv">
            <providers>
                <add connectionStringName="webAdminConnection6322590945 95937500"
                    applicationName="/ASP2Sample" description="This is the sample provider."
                    requiresUniqueEmail="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="true"
                    enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
                    passwordFormat="Encrypted" name="SQLProv" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3500.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
            </providers>
        </membership>

Where it says: passwordFormat="Encrypted", it doesn't like this. Any ideas?

Brian

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Brian

I had the EXACT same problem. Look in the msdn help file index under "machineKey". It specifies what to do. In short,
in the web.config file, you have to specify some parameters for encryption to work. In the < system.web > node, add the following:

  < machineKey validationKey="[big long honkin key],IsolateApps"
decryptionKey="[other big honkin key],IsolateApps"
            validation="3DES" / >

These big long honkin keys can be generated. There is an msdn article that has a download regarding adding custom providers. You can download and install it from here: (http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...AMProvider.msi)
You can use the key gen exe to generate the correct size key you need based on the type of encryption you choose. For the validation key, i used 64 bytes. For the decryption key, i used 24 bytes (because I chose TripleDES).

Good luck!;)

Hey,

I'll have to try that out. Thanks a lot.

Brian

Hey,

Yeah, that worked like a charm. Had trouble with SHA1 format, so I switched to 3DES.

Brian

I downloaded the link that was posted but how do you run the key gen exe in order to get a key?