RE: sensitive data

Lim,

You need to use either TripleDES or 256-bit AES to satisfy credit card
industry rules which are both block ciphers (this means that the cipher
text will always be a multiple of how every many bytes the cipher is
for, in the case of 256-bit AES, it will be a multiple of 32 bytes).
Once you add in a block for padding bytes and a block for the salt value
(this is a secure random number that makes the cipher text different for
the same value and pass phrase, you'll need to store this with the
cipher text but it doesn't need to be encrypted), you can pretty much
guarantee that the existing fields will be too small. Also, cipher text
is binary data so if you need to move it around, you'll need to encode
it into printable text. We just use the hex values (which double the
size of the field) but you could also Uuencode it.

In the specific case of credit cards, what we did was store 12 *'s + the
last four digits of the card number in the credit card field and then we
let the credit card software (jCharge) worry about sending it to the
bank. If someone really needs to see the card number, there is a
function in jCharge that lets them look it up and jCharge logs who did
it.

Since our development machine is on V5R1 still, I had to use the #CIPHER
MI to do the encryption/decryption work. This function is actually
pretty easy to use and the interfaces to it seem to be pretty
standardized so it was easy to apply information I found on the Internet
to it. There is also an example of 128-bit AES in the archives but read
through the entire thread since there is a bug with the original code I
posted. The example only encrypts a single block but it's pretty easy to
make it do multiple blocks.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:24 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: sensitive data

Just want to know how other handle file that contains both sensitive and
non-sensitive data field. For example, Customer-Billing-Info Master
file might have Billing Address fields (Non-Sensitive Data) and Credit
Card field (Sensitive data). Do you create special Service Program to
access those field, using field level auth...?