Joe the Web Guy Hints, Tips, Solutions, and Warnings from a Web Geek

5Apr/110

Go and get WordPress 3.1.1 now!

I use WordPress to power my websites for a variety of reasons. Today they released version 3.1.1 which they’re calling a “maintenance and security release” which fixes around thirty issues that were present in 3.1, such as: Some security hardening to media uploads Performance improvements Fixes for IIS6 support Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) [...]

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24Jul/101

Exception type: CryptographicException

Recently we started getting the following error message on our ASP.NET 2.0 web application running on IIS6. Exception type: CryptographicException Exception message: Padding is invalid and cannot be removed. Stack trace: at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.DecryptData(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount, Byte[]& outputBuffer, Int32 outputOffset, PaddingMode paddingMode, Boolean fLast) at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.TransformFinalBlock(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount) at System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock() [...]

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