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Good day all,

does anyone know a way to encrypt and decrypt passwords via the Pathscrambler itself? I haven't found anything about decryption in the documentation so far and assume there is no support for this for security reasons.

Thanks for any feedback.

Kind regards
Jan Bretscher

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Jan Bretscher
Software-Engineer
Abf Informatik Ag
Cham CH
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Good day all,

does anyone know a way to encrypt and decrypt passwords via the Pathscrambler itself? I haven't found anything about decryption in the documentation so far and assume there is no support for this for security reasons.

Thanks for any feedback.

Kind regards
Jan Bretscher

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Jan Bretscher
Software-Engineer
Abf Informatik Ag
Cham CH
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Hi Jan,

This is indeed intended as a one way tool in order protect the information that must stay secure.

Regards,

Jason.

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Jason Huggins
Director, Enablement & Education
Rocket Internal - All Brands
GB
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Good day all,

does anyone know a way to encrypt and decrypt passwords via the Pathscrambler itself? I haven't found anything about decryption in the documentation so far and assume there is no support for this for security reasons.

Thanks for any feedback.

Kind regards
Jan Bretscher

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Jan Bretscher
Software-Engineer
Abf Informatik Ag
Cham CH
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Hi Jan,

Usually you never decrypt passwords; you encrypt them and store the encrypted string in the database.

When you want to check a password, you will encrypt again the user entry and you compare both encrypted texts. If they match, it is okay; if it does not, then the user entered a wrong password.

The next step is to concatenate the user password with a random string (called salt). If you use this technic, then 2 same passwords will not be encrypted the same way which is important if your database gets breached.

Stephane



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Stephane Pfefer
Application Specialist
Darling
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