ASP.NET Utility to Encrypt Credentials and Session State Connection Strings

This step-by-step article describes how to use the Aspnet_setreg.exe utility to encrypt credentials and session state connection strings. ASP.NET version 1.0 requires that you store plain text credentials in configuration files if you want to do any of the following: Change the Microsoft ASP.NET worker process identity, Specify an impersonation identity or Specify a connection string for session state.