Encryption / Decryption of app.config sections using RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider

Question

During the installation of our program we run this method to encrpyt sections of the app.config:

// Get the application configuration file.
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Answer 1

I got this on an app.config that was running on a Windows Server set up as a SQL Server. It did not have IIS installed. The machine.config file listed RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider as the default, but when we looked in the two folders mentioned by Aliostad above the folders were empty.There were no keys installed. We used the aspnet_regiis tool to create a custom key. then we used it to grant access to the identity the batch job runs under. All of this was running cmd.exe and aspnet_regiis As Administrator.