How to Protect the CIS Encryption Keys that the Server Uses to Encrypt the Passwords?

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Updated:June 2, 2016
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Introduction

This document describes the facet of encryption used in Cisco Data Virtualization.

How to protect the encryption keys that the server uses to encrypt the passwords?

In addition to AES-128 encryption, the server uses a secret key generated during server installation and is stored in the java JCEKS keystore file in the installation.

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  • Brad Shao
    Cisco Engineering

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