rsaprotectedconfiguration

ASP.NET - encrypting confing sections - ProtectSection - RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider

I am developing a web application using vs2008 and used two accounts on Vista 64 bit - the original first admin account after the Vista install and now a power user account. I forgot what I did, but when I run SectionInformation.ProtectSection (System.Configuration) under the original account, the encryption of the config section work...

Encrypt / Decrypt in asp.net using RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider

The encryption worked properly. But now i am getting an error that says "RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider Bad Data" When checked, i came to know that we need to run the command: aspnet_regiis -pa "NetFrameworkConfigurationKey" "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" My question is, if I run this command in my production environment, will it af...