Just to clarify: this is not implementing an encryption algorithm.  It's
merely using one of the standard AES algorithms implemented in the JRE.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:51 PM Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-2469 <
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HOP-2469>. Please review. We need
> to know ASAP whether we are out of compliance with ASF encryption policy.
>
> Julian
>
>
> > On Jan 27, 2021, at 12:38 PM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > If an Apache release includes cryptography we need to declare it. See
> https://infra.apache.org/crypto.html <https://infra.apache.org/crypto.html
> >.
> >
> > Julian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 27, 2021, at 12:27 PM, Matt Casters <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Hopiverse,
> >>
> >> I took the liberty to push out pull request 586
> >> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/pull/586 <
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/pull/586>>.  It synchronizes the
> >> password encoding of the metadata with the rest of the Hop platform.
> >> Mistakes of the past are best not repeated...
> >>
> >> To test this fairly small change I then wrote an AES two way password
> >> encoder plugin also included in the PR.
> >> I wrote the unit tests I thought were needed and wrote the documentation
> >> <
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/blob/43a522b8c7a9f7a03d1c941fb99ebd9468f7f89e/plugins/misc/passwords/src/main/doc/aespasswords.adoc
> <
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-hop/blob/43a522b8c7a9f7a03d1c941fb99ebd9468f7f89e/plugins/misc/passwords/src/main/doc/aespasswords.adoc
> >>
> >> to go along with it... but I would appreciate an extra couple of eyes to
> >> see if it all works as expected to be on the safe side.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >
>
>

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