Securing you Azure Connection String

With windows Azure you have dependency on the Keys, like storage key, sql authentication.  It is important to encrypt them and secure it.  There is good article which details the steps to secure your connection strings.

Configuring specific section of web.config

1. Creating Certificate
2. Uploading Certificate to Azure portal
3. Encrypting & updating web.config
4. Config Provider

for Encrypting and Decrypting string using certificate refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh697511.aspx