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Message: [QUOTE="Thomas Sun [MSFT], post: 4285745"] Hi Chuck, Sorry for late responding. With Reflector, we can see that the FormsAuthentication.Encrypt method invokes MachineKeySection.EnsureConfig method which is used to load MachineKeySection from config file when it is null. The follow code is from .Net Framework: ============================ private static void EnsureConfig() { if (s_config == null) { lock (s_initLock) { if (s_config == null) { MachineKeySection machineKey = RuntimeConfig.GetAppConfig().MachineKey; machineKey.ConfigureEncryptionObject(); s_config = machineKey; s_compatMode = machineKey.CompatibilityMode; } } } } ========================== Without accessing web.config file, I think we cannot set its value. - Best Regards, Thomas Sun Microsoft Online Partner Support -------------------- | | I started messing with Reflector with | System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication, but after about 4 pages of code I | stopped. They way they initialized static classes and had global members | being set in the middle of functions, just did not inspire confidence. | | [/QUOTE]