Does anyone have sample code to encrypt a file, on AIX? Of course it needs to be encrypted with a password and then decrypted.

Thanks for any help or direction you can give me.
Rhonda

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Rhonda,

The syntax for AIX encryption, and I'm assuming that you are talking about WebFOCUS encryption, is the same on all platforms.

The password is arbitrary and I think up to 7.6.5, though not sure of the lifting of the restriction, it must be in upper case.

Also the syntax varies based on the type of file you are encrypting.

For a master:

SET PASS=YOURPASS
ENCRYPT FILE masname

For a focexec:

SET PASS=YOURPASS
ENCRYPT FILE fexname FOCEXEC

To decrypt, use the work DECRYPT instead of ENCRYPT.

Hi Ginny - I should have been more specific, I meant operating system command. I am looking for the syntax to encrypt a file on AIX outside for WebFOCUS.

Thanks!

If it is encrypted using an OS command, how are you going to use the file in WebFOCUS?

Rhonda,

I do not know of any native AIX command that does encryption for you. There may be some third party package that you could buy to do the encryption. On the other hand, you do already have (Web)Focus. That package can do the encryption for you ...

Unfortunately we are using 7.1.6 and WebFOCUS encryption does not work on AHTML files. We have decided to wait until we upgrade to 7.6x to do what we want.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Ginny
That's OK if it is encrypted outside of WebFOCUS. We were looking to implement a workaround to encrypting reports and using
ReportCaster to distribute the reports. We have decided to wait until we upgrade to 7.6x where this issue has been addressed.
Thanks!

quote:

Originally posted by Rhonda:
Hi Ginny
That's OK if it is encrypted outside of WebFOCUS. We were looking to implement a workaround to encrypting reports and using
ReportCaster to distribute the reports. We have decided to wait until we upgrade to 7.6x where this issue has been addressed.
Thanks!

If you distributing by email then you might be able to apply S/MIME (wikipedia link) or another public key encryption application (PGP, OpenPGP, GnuPG) to ensure that if the wrong people get it they can't read it. This will take some setting up with your users and mail admin however.

Cheers

Stu

uuencode and uudecode? are those just dos based encryptions?
try googling 'aix command to encrypt a file' there were some OTFE commands listed.
also you may want to look into: "ccrypt" it is a util for encrypting/decrypting files 'n streams. It was intended as a replacement for the standard unix crypt utility.

Good luck.
Ira
AIX 533 WF 538 (DEV)

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and recommendations!