2014-07-10 11:32 GMT+02:00 Brad Firestone <[email protected]>:
> Thank you for your response Clément!
>
> (Sorry if this is duplicate. Just trying to keep the message in the
> mailing list.)
>
> I’ve looked at those two pages for a long time before sending the message
> to the list. And because I’m so new to this, I don’t understand how to do
> it.
> I’ll try to make my questions very specific so I don’t waste your time.
>
> 1. Where should these lines be placed? Do they go in lsc.xml? Are they
> part of a task? A dataset? Since the examples don’t show these lines in
> context, I don’t know where to put them.
>
>
Yes, inside a dataset.
> 2. If I use the Hash rule as shown in the example:
>
> SecurityUtils.hash(SecurityUtils.HASH_SHA1, "phrase to hash”)
>
> How do I tell it to do this operation on the existing plain text value
> that is in the database source? I understand how this line works with a
> single unchanging “phrase to hash”, but not with an existing source value
> from a database record. I’m guessing it will be a srcBean of some
> configuration?
>
Replace the "phrase to hash" by
srcBean.getDatasetFirstValueById("password"), with "password" beeing the DB
field name.
> 3. In the example box for Symmetric Encryption there are two lines:
>
> SecurityUtils.encrypt("something secret")
>
> SecurityUtils.decrypt(srcBean.getDatasetFirstValueById("encryptedAttribute"))
>
> Are these two different examples, or must they be used together?
>
>
These are different examples.
> 4. When pulling a source plaintext value from a database, what types of
> values would replace:
> “something secret” and “encryptedAttribute” ?
>
>
To put the password inside an LDAP server, use SHA or MD5 methods,, with
{SHA} or {MD5} at the beginning of the string.
Clément.
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