I'm trying to set the Machine Key in Web.Config of ASP.Net MVC apps but it sounds like Azure automatically provision unique machine keys for each web app and override what's in my Web.Config. The...

I am receiving the following error at certain times on asp.net website. Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted ...

I want to adjust the machine keys dynamically in code during runtime, for an IIS hosted ASP.NET MVC 4 website. The machine keys, encryption and validation keys as well as algorithms to use, are st...

I have Authorization server which built on .NET 4.5.1 and use Microsoft.Owin.Security.OAuth Version=3.0.0 http://prntscr.com/hvwhl4 Tokens protected via machinkey (OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions.A...

I find myself wanting to get the ASP.NET machine key for the current application. This is, of course, easy if a machine key is specified in the configuration file, but if it's set to auto generate ...

I have been using dotnet core to create an application that runs in a Kubernetes cluster on Linux hosts. As I was testing it noticed getting exceptions when validating the CSRF tokens, that makes s...

I working on a MVC 4 site which has uses Authentication. The site requires that I specify the Machine Key values. I did this via the IIS interface having deselected the "automatically generate at r...

I am trying to make run this function hex2a(hex) { var str = ''; for (var i = 0; i < hex.length; i += 2) str += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(hex.substr(i, 2), 16)); return str; } //Raw coo...

I'm trying to encrypt and decrypt Id with MachineKey. Here is my code that calls the encrypt and decrypt functions: var encryptedId = Encryption.Protect(profileId.ToString(), UserId); var decry...

I am using MachineKey API to encrypt/decrypt a piece of information in an ASP.NET application. I am using MachineKey.Encode(data, MachineKeyProtection.All) and MachineKey.Decode(data, Machine...

I'm running an Azure Website. Whenever I deploy, everyone gets logged out because the machineKey changes. I specified the machineKey in the web.config but this didn't solve the issue. I believe th...

There seems to be parts of the answers to my problem spread over multiple posts but putting it together hasn't worked so far for me, so I hope when this post is answered it will form more complete ...

We (our IT partner really) recently changed some DNS for a web farmed site we have, so that the two production server have round-robin DNS switching between them. Prior to this switch we didn't rea...

I have a simple .net application using the .NET 2.0 runtime in IIS 7.5 where I've changed the machine key in the web.config to use the following: <machineKey validationKey="AutoGenerate,Isolat...

I am attempting to turn on viewstate encryption Always as a security measure for my ASP.NET 3.5 website hosted in IIS6. We have viewstate turned off but still see some "controlstate" in this string...

I have a ASP.NET MVC workflow configured as two websites managed by a load balancer. The websites use Sql Server as the session state provider and have authentication switch off (its not required)....

When a user logs in based on default Forms Authentication method, the server creates a cookie containing encrypted data (using Machine Key as key for encryption). It means that if someone find/gue...

Where do I find the machineKey config section for ASP.NET? I don't have one in my application Web.config, there isn't one in the root Web.config and there isn't one in my machine.config. Does thi...

What different ways are Machine Keys useful in asp.net? I think the following are correct but thought there may be more. Multiple applications can use the same cookie Multiple servers can work wi...