LetsDevOps: PowerShell to Encrypt and Decrypt Password/Secret using Self Signed Certificate

In Automation world we need to use password/secret in the script for authentication like connecting to Azure, Providing the Access to Azure Resources.
Using the password/secret in the Script makes it risky, hence this blog will help to encrypt the password using Windows built-in tool.

To achieve this task we need to use the certificate which we can create on the system where we want to encrypt and decrypt the password.
With this encryption it will use public key to encrypt the password but only user and system will be able to decrypt since it has the private Key associated.
In this case if someone else gets the public key they will not be able to decrypt it. Hence it is powerful and safe.

Blog:
https://www.letsdevops.net/post/power...


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