Storing encrypted password in xml file??

[smita]

Hi,

I have an XML file that stores a Profile of a user, including the username,
password, server name, etc.

I want to be able to leave the XML file as plain text, but have the password
attribute encrypted.

I have used the RC2CryptoServiceProvider class, but when i convert the
encrypted byte array to a string to store in my xml file, it(the encrypted
string) contains some illegal characters which are not allowed in an xml
file.


Anyone have any ideas of how to encrypt the password and still be able to
store it in the xml file.

By the way, I also need to decrypt it, so none of the hash code replies
please..

Thanks in advance:-)

Smita.

[Mark Berryman [MSFT]]

Have you considered wrapping the password data using "CDATA" blocks?

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