Hi Azeez,

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you already started working on this?
>

Yes, had to provide a support patch.


> I would prefer a ciphertool.properties or ciphertool.conf file, rather
> than System properties.
>

Ciphertool has a ciphertool.sh file to invoke it. That's why I thought to
use System properties. But of course, it's possible to introduce a
properties file.


> If the file is not present, fallback to carbon.xml.
>
However, to make this truly independent from Carbon, you should not take
> any dependency on Carbon kernel or components.
>

Ciphertool has no dependency for any Carbon component/ Kernel. It's under
dependencies and here's the pom file:
https://github.com/wso2/commons/blob/master/ciphertool/pom.xml

>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Currently, our Cipher tool implementation is dependent upon Carbon
>> runtime specific configuration files such as carbon.xml [1].
>>
>> The idea is to, let you configure and run Cipher tool by simply setting
>> System properties, so that you can utilize the tool to encrypt passwords
>> even without having a Carbon runtime available.
>>
>> Of course, the current behavior will also be preserved, that is; if the
>> System properties are not present, the required values will be read from
>> the Carbon runtime specific configurations.
>>
>> Please share your thoughts.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/wso2/commons/blob/master/ciphertool/src/main/java/org/wso2/ciphertool/CipherTool.java#L290
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks & regards,
>> Nirmal
>>
>> Senior Software Engineer- Platform Technologies Team, WSO2 Inc.
>> Mobile: +94715779733
>> Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Thanks & regards,
Nirmal

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Mobile: +94715779733
Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
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