Generating Encryption Keys

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Last updated: Jan 21, 2010Version comment

Kuali Enterprise Workflow uses an Encryption Service to encrypt document content. This service takes in a parameter encryption.key for encrypting and decrypting data. Each application integrating into Rice must generate its own encryption key. IET provides a key generator as part of the IET Commons Utils project.

To generate an encryption key:

  1. Get the iet-commons-utils v1.1.0 JAR from https://psl-95.ucdavis.edu/repo/edu/ucdavis/iet/commons/iet-commons-utils/1.1.0/
  2. Get the commons-codec v1.3 jar from https://psl-95.ucdavis.edu/repo/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.3/
  3. Make sure these two JARs are in the same directory
  4. From the command line, execute: 
    [<directory where the 2 JARs are>]$ java -classpath iet-commons-utils-1.1.0.jar;commons-codec-1.3.jar edu.ucdavis.iet.commons.utils.encryption.AESKeyGenerator
  5. You'll get output like: 
    Generated Key: OS2vyFblahKg0Ta1/rQBGQ==

See KEW Service Configuration for implementing the encryption key.