Why does my car key change every time I click on a new version of my role on the Azure network?

Question

My question is: why does the machine key obtained by this function return a different value each time I restart my Azure web roles in the Azure Compute emulator? I have hard code generated by a machine key in my Web.config for this role - should this not be enough?

 var cfg = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.ApplicationVirtualPath);
 var machineKey = (MachineKeySection)cfg.GetSection("system.web/machineKey");

What is the proper way to handle this in Azure web roles?

I use my machine keys to hash user data, so it is important that I do not have dynamic machine keys: p

Answer 1

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