Thanks Yossi!

Where on the server are the keys stored? What measures are in place to keep
the keys secure?

Thanks,
Barry



Yossi Shaul-3 wrote:
> 
> The private and public keys are both automatically generated and stored on
> the server, using the Triple DES algorithm (aka DESede).
> What you see in the ui and put in the settings.xml is the result of taking
> the clear text password and encrypting it using the DESede keys.
> 
> Yossi Shaul
> 
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:45 AM, bman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Thanks Fred!
>>
>> This helps a lot, but I still have some questions.  So does this mean
>> that
>> the private key is stored on the user's machine, and the public key is
>> stored on the server?  What do you mean by "encrypt is clear text
>> password
>> in the UI?"  Is the encryption method Triple DES as mentioned in the Jira
>> request?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Barry
>>
>>
>> freddy33 wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > First, yes this is implemented.
>> > Second, the SecretKey is actually generated per user when he is using
>> the
>> > Artifactory Web UI. I mean that the password is used to authenticate
>> the
>> > user against LDAP, then when going to the user profile page the user
>> can
>> > "Unlock" his password using it's personal private key with the same
>> > password. Artifactory never store the LDAP password, just the pair
>> > private/public key used to decrypt the grabbled text used by the user
>> in
>> > the
>> > settings.xml and encrypt is clear text password in the UI.
>> >
>> > Is that clear? :)
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > Fred.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:51 AM, bman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Howdy,
>> >>
>> >> According to the original feature request for encrypted passwords
>> >> (http://issues.jfrog.org/jira/browse/RTFACT-1191), the admin user
>> should
>> >> be
>> >> able to set the key value:
>> >> The basic concept is to allow an admin user the ability (via Web UI)
>> to
>> >> set
>> >> a secret key value (javax.crypto.SecretKey) to be used for encrypting
>> >> users
>> >> passwords.  Once the secret key has been set, the normal user would
>> use
>> >> the
>> >> Web UI to input his password and then generate the encrypted (Triple
>> >> DES?)
>> >> version of the password. The user would then cut-and-paste the
>> encrypted
>> >> string into the settings.xml file.
>> >> Was this part implemented?  If so, how does one go about doing this?
>> >>
>> >> Otherwise, how is the key set and what security controls are around
>> the
>> >> key?
>> >>
>> >> We are integrating with LDAP, so we just want to be sure our domain
>> >> credentials are well protected.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Barry
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