When using a MySQL or SQL Server database with CardExchange® Visitor it is likely that you would want to protect the username and password used to connect to it.
By default these details are stored in a standard xml configuration file, so we also offer the possibility to encrypt the connection strings with this file.
Included in the installation directory is a file called CardExchange.Encrypt.exe, if you drag your configuration file onto this exe file, it will encrypt the database connection string within the configuration file.
Note: This process cannot be reversed so please make sure that you keep the connection details in case you need to change the connection details at a later time. Also this encrypted file is not portable between installations and can only be used on the machine it was generated on.
You can do this for both the CardExchange.Gateway.exe.config and VisitorExchange.Kiosk.exe.Config files.
If the encryption was successful you should see this window.
