Securely store a password in program code?

Question

My application makes use of the RijndaelManaged class to encrypt data. As a part of this encryption, I use a SecureString object loaded with a password which get\'s get con

Answer 1

It sounds to me like perhaps you should be using a PKI solution instead of encryption/decryption. If you have another application that needs to consume the encrypted data, then you could have a key pair for that application, and give the public key to the app that is doing the encryption. That way you are still keeping your data secure, but not introducing a bunch of additional code that ultimately doesn't give all that much protection.

A quick google search gave me this Code Project article that talks about using the Windows Certificate Store in .Net