What is the proper method for encrypting ASP.NET connetionStrings?

Question

I\'ve been looking through several examples of encrypting connectionStrings (Web.config) in an ASP.NET MVC application (.NET 4.0) and it seems that there are two general ways to

Answer 1

The easiest way with the shared hoster is probably going to be to write your own encrypt/decrypt utility and store the connection string either in app settings, custom XML file, or text file, so that you have full control over the encryption/decryption process...

Per your update, you can get the current request via:

new HttpRequestWrapper(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request);

HTH.