Security, anyone? Ease of maintenance? <BR><BR>Our web services use TripleDES encrypted connection strings stored in application-specific config files located on locked down network shares.

You can store encrypted values in your ASP.NET Core configuration file and seamlessly decrypt the values as you retrieve them. But there are, at least, two issues that you'll need to address.

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.

Take advantage of HTTPS and the HSTS security enhancement to encrypt web client and server communications in your ASP.Net Core applications Secure Sockets Layer—SSL for short—is a standard ...