RE: Where to store encrypted field passwords

Yes, I would like to see the article so I will keep an eye out for the System iNetwork e-mail

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Where to store encrypted field passwords

In V5R4, IBM has provided key stores for storing stuff like this, and
some APIs to access those key stores.

Tomorrow's (January 24th) issue of System iNetwork Programming Tips
contains an article by Carsten Flensburg that demonstrates how to use
these key stores, and provides some simplified CL commands for accessing
them.

If that sounds interesting, let me know and I'll post a link when the
article becomes available.

Mike Cunningham wrote:

We are setting up our first use of an encrypted database field and can see this expanding once we get the process worked out. We are looking for ideas on the best place to store the password(s) needed to encrypt/decrypt the fields. We have one LDAP communication process where we stored the password in a dataarea since it was needed by multiple applications. We are not sure a dataarea is best for each of the passwords we might have in the future. Has anyone found the perfect solution for where to store passwords that you may need to know forever?

Mike Cunningham
CIO
PA College of Technology

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