Encrypting custom sections of a web.config

I used the article Creating a Flexible Configuration Section Handler to create a Flexible Configuration Section Handler in my application.

I also saw this article entitled Encrypting Custom Configuration Sections on the OdeToCode blog, on how to encrypt portions of a web.config file.

From the first article, we have this web.config code.

<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <sectionname="StyleSheetSettings_1"    
            type="FifteenSeconds.Core.BasicConfigurator"/>
    </configSections>
    <StyleSheetSettings_1>
        <StyleSheets>
            <Style SheetName="Page"Href="Styles/Page.css"Media="screen"/>
            <StyleSheetName="Custom"Href="Styles/Custom.css"Media="screen"/>
            <StyleSheetName="Print"Href="/Lib/Styles/Print.css"Media="print"/>
        </StyleSheets>      
    </StyleSheetSettings_1>
 </configuration>

I tried to use the following code to encrypt the code using something like the following command line code.

 aspnet_regiis.exe -pef  "StyleSheetSettings_1" C:\Test\

I am getting the following error

Could not load type FifteenSeconds.Core.BasicConfigurator' from assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.

Any help would be appreciated.

Encrypting custom sections of a web.config

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