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Clarification on Digital Certificates

I used the makecert tool to create: self-signed certificate client certificate These are the commands I used: makecert -n "CN=MatthewCA" -r -sv MatthewCA.pvk MatthewCA.cer **for self signed ...
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Sending Digital Certificates

I used the makecert tool in order to create: a self-signed certificate a server certificate using the self-signed certificate a client certificate using the self-signed certificate I then ...
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What is a better practice - RSA Encryption vs Windows authentication

I have two machines running windows OS with IIS and window OS with MS SQL. In the production web.config file I configure the IIS to use a user name and password when connecting to the DB and then I ...
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Encrypting configuration on shared IIS7 hosting that uses load balancing

When hosting a site on a cluster (or cloud configuration) we need to specify a Machine Key in the web.config file. This is needed to keep the machines in sync (often the first encounter with this is ...