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<div class="docbook"><div class="navheader"><table summary="Navigation header" width="100%"><tr><th align="center" colspan="3">8.4.&#160;Configuration Encryption</th></tr><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><a accesskey="p" href="Java-Broker-Security-AccessControlProviders.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th align="center" width="60%">Chapter&#160;8.&#160;Security</th><td align="right" width="20%">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="Java-Broker-Runtime.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Java-Broker-Security-Configuration-Encryption"></a>8.4.&#160;Configuration Encryption</h2></div></div></div><p> The Broker is capable of encrypting passwords and other security items stored in the
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configuration will be automatically rewritten in the encrypted form.</p><p>Note that passwords stored by the Authentication Providers <a class="link" href="Java-Broker-Security.html#Java-Broker-Security-PlainPasswordFile-Provider" title="8.1.8.&#160;Plain Password File (Deprecated)">PlainPasswordFile</a> and.
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Scram Authentication Managers instead; these make use of the Configuration Encryption when
storing the users' passwords. </p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="Java-Broker-Security-Configuration-Encryption-Alternate-Implementations"></a>8.4.2.&#160;Alternate Implementations</h3></div></div></div><p>If the <code class="literal">AESKeyFile</code> encryptor implementation does not meet the needs of
the user, perhaps owing to the security standards of their institution, the
<code class="literal">ConfigurationSecretEncrypter</code> interface is designed as an extension point.
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stronger encryption or delegating the storage of the key to an Enterprise Password
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