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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by John Turner <to...@johnturner.com> on 2003/04/28 17:26:38 UTC

Re: FW: - off topic - How to encrypt data that can be read by server and client

Have you looked at the Bouncy Castle site?  I don't think there is anything 
you need to write.

http://www.bouncycastle.org/index.html

John

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:38:37 +0100, Donie Kelly <do...@tecnomen.ie> 
wrote:

> Hi all
> Sorry for the OT but I wondering if anybody has had the need to do the
> following?
> We want to store data in LDAP that is "encrypted" and can be read by 
> tomcat
> servlets running on two different machines.
> Both applications are clients are far as the data is concerned so both 
> need
> to be able to decrypt it. I would like to be able to write a standalone
> class to do the encryption/decryption but any examples I have found use a
> key which is generated on the machine or is available on the machine.
> Question is how can I embed the private key in the class and use some 
> fairly
> strong encryption so the data cannot be hacked by browsing the LDAP
> server...
> Thanks for any insights
> Donie
>



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