How to encrypt the username and password in script task?

• Sidd303

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  February 20, 2012 at 10:48 pm

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  Hi,

  I have to create a scrip task using vb.net which reads the username and password written in the xml configuration file and later I need to encrypt it.

  I am using visual studio 2005 for creating this script task.

  Can anyone please help?

  Thanks in Advance.

• Koen Verbeeck

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  February 21, 2012 at 12:03 am

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  Where do you need to encrypt it? (where are you planning to store the username and password?)

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• Sidd303

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  February 21, 2012 at 12:10 am

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  I want to save the password in the xml config file.

• Koen Verbeeck

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  February 21, 2012 at 12:25 am

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  That's unfortunately not how config file works. If you would encrypt it, the SSIS package cannot use the contents any more. You probably want to use the script task to read it out again and decrypt it, but configurations are applied before the script task even starts. The SSIS package will take the encrypted value and apply it to the connection manager. And then probably fail validation as it cannot make a connection.

  I would use a SQL Server config table instead. The data is inside SQL Server, which is of course a more secure environment. Put the protectionlevel of the package to Server Storage when you deploy it to the server.

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