We now have a documented and supported way in Azure PAAS to encrypt the connection strings

Hello All, This just in, Sitecore has released official guidance on a tested and supported way to encrypt your connection strings in azure paas. The information in the doc is nothing completely new and revolutionary basically youre just moving the raw connection string value to to the AppService connection string section in the azure portal. The new and revolutionary part is that sitecore has adopted this approach as officially supported. Here is the Sitecore doc:

Protect the connection string passwords from unauthorized access

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If you need to secure your IAAS Sitecore connection strings, please see Kelly Rusks Sitecore blog here