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Is there any official documentation that specifies the encryption specification used by FME desktop to store passwords (e.g. ORACLE connection string passwords)? Specifically what encryption algorithms and keys length combinations are available?

Only a few combination are acceptable to the Australian Federal Government. This is required for my organisation security section to sign off on the future use of FME.

Best answer by fmelizard

Hi @marcusblake FME uses AES 128 bit encryption to store passwords. If you'd like the option of other encryption types then please post that at https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/list.html

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    • August 14, 2018

    Hi @marcusblake FME uses AES 128 bit encryption to store passwords. If you'd like the option of other encryption types then please post that at https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/list.html

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    fmelizard wrote:

    Hi @marcusblake FME uses AES 128 bit encryption to store passwords. If you'd like the option of other encryption types then please post that at https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/list.html

    Thanks Dan...looks like AES128 is one of the approved systems.

     

     

    For your info...here's a reference to the Australian Government Information Security Manual.

     

    "The approved symmetric encryption algorithms are AES128, AES192, AES256, and 3DES (page 242): https://acsc.gov.au/publications/Information_Security_Manual_2017_Controls.pdf

     

     

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    • January 24, 2019

    And a related question... for the same Australian Security requirements, can you please advise which algorithm is being used for FME Server "Restricted" mode security?

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    And a related question... for the same Australian Security requirements, can you please advise which algorithm is being used for FME Server "Restricted" mode security?

    Hi @nic_ran

     

    FME Server System Encryption uses AES algorithm with 128bit encryption.

     

    Let me know if you have any further questions.
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    • January 30, 2019
    nic_ran wrote:

    And a related question... for the same Australian Security requirements, can you please advise which algorithm is being used for FME Server "Restricted" mode security?

    Thanks Jen.

    Updating your comment to include some additional information you shared with me via email...

    • The encryption applies to projects, as well as backups.
    • We only encrypt sensitive data (not all data), and we don't encrypt fme server tokens (yet). Work is being done now to pave the way for token encryption but it won't be in 2019.0.

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