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Decrypting DPAPI (aspnet_setreg) stored credentials

I came across a problem at work where I needed to recover credentials that had been stored in the registry using .Net’s DPAPI (aspnet_setreg). Thankfully the open source NCrypto library came to the rescue. Here’s a simple bit of code making use of the NCrypto.Security.Cryptography assembly to decrypt the data: <%@ Page Language=”C#” Debug=”true” %> […]