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Cipher Tool is developed by WSO2 for encrypting sensitive data in files stored in a file system. Thereby, Cipher Tool can be used in WSO2 products as well as in non-WSO2 environments. However, in order to use the Cipher Tool in a WSO2 product or any other environment, product developers must ensure that Cipher Tool is enabled in the respective product build. The instructions on this page explain how developers can install the Cipher Tool feature when building a product.

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1. In the pom.xml of the p2-profile-gen, the Cipher Tool features needs to be added under <featureArtifacts> as given below.
   

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   <featureArtifacts> ...... <featureArtifactDef>org.wso2.ciphertool:org.wso2.ciphertool.feature:${cipher.tool.version}</featureArtifactDef> </featureArtifacts>

2. Under the "default" profile, the Cipher Tool feature ID needs to be added as given below:
   

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   <execution> ..... <configuration> <profile>default</profile> ....... <features> ....... <feature> <id>org.wso2.ciphertool.feature.group</id> <version>${cipher.tool.version}</version> </feature> </features> </configuration> </execution>

3. In the bin.xml (in distribution), the location in the product pack to which the Cipher Tool Jar and its configuration files should be copied is mentioned as given below. Note that ${cipher.tool.version} refers to the Cipher Tool version:
   

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   files> ......... <!-- Cipher Tool Files --> <file> <source>../p2-profile-gen/target/wso2carbon-core-${carbon.kernel.version}/bin/ciphertool.sh</source> <outputDirectory>${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}/bin</outputDirectory> <fileMode>755</fileMode> </file> <file> <source>../p2-profile-gen/target/wso2carbon-core-${carbon.kernel.version}/bin/ciphertool.bat</source> <outputDirectory>${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}/bin</outputDirectory> </file> <file> <source>../p2-profile-gen/target/wso2carbon-core-${carbon.kernel.version}/lib/org.wso2.ciphertool-${cipher.tool.version}.jar</source> <outputDirectory>${pom.artifactId}-${pom.version}/lib</outputDirectory> </file> </files>

4. Now you must create the cipher-tool.properties and cipher-text.properties files for your product and store them in the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repsoistory/conf/security directory. Note that these two files are always product specific. This is because the type and number of passwords in configuration files that require encryption may be different in each product. Therefore, each product team should create these files with the information that is relevant to the product. For example, shown below are the cipher-tool.properties and cipher-text.properties files that are created for Carbon Kernel.
   
   Sample cipher-text.properties:
   

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   # By default, This file contains the secret alias names and the plain text passwords enclosed with '[]' brackets # In Production environments, It is recommend to replace these plain text password by the encrypted values. CipherTool can be used for it. Carbon.Security.KeyStore.Password=[wso2carbon] Carbon.Security.KeyStore.KeyPassword=[wso2carbon] Carbon.Security.TrustStore.Password=[wso2carbon] UserManager.AdminUser.Password=[admin] Datasources.WSO2_CARBON_DB.Configuration.Password=[wso2carbon] Server.Service.Connector.keystorePass=[wso2carbon]

   Sample cipher-tool.properties:

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   # Important: This properties file contains all the aliases to be used in carbon components. If any property need to be secured, you need to add alias name, file name and the xpath as follows:. # The value goes as, the <file_name>//<xpath>,<true/false> # where <file_name> - is the file (along with the file path) to be secured, # <xpath> - is the xpath to the property value to be secured # <true / false> - This is true if the last parameter in the xpath is parameter (starts with [ and ends with ]) and you want its value to be replaced with "password" Carbon.Security.KeyStore.Password=repository/conf/carbon.xml//Server/Security/KeyStore/Password,false Carbon.Security.KeyStore.KeyPassword=repository/conf/carbon.xml//Server/Security/KeyStore/KeyPassword,false Carbon.Security.TrustStore.Password=repository/conf/carbon.xml//Server/Security/TrustStore/Password,false UserManager.AdminUser.Password=repository/conf/user-mgt.xml//UserManager/Realm/Configuration/AdminUser/Password,false Datasources.WSO2_CARBON_DB.Configuration.Password=repository/conf/datasources/master-datasources.xml//datasources-configuration/datasources/datasource[name='WSO2_CARBON_DB']/definition[@type='RDBMS']/configuration/password,false Server.Service.Connector.keystorePass=repository/conf/tomcat/catalina-server.xml//Server/Service/Connector[@keystorePass],true

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   title Note the following when you update the cipher-tool.properties file:
   For Carbon 4.4.x, you will be using a new version of the Cipher tool (1.0.0-wso2v3). This new version provides the capability of encrypting passwords that are specified as property values as well as attribute values in configuration files. Consider the following examples: A password specified as a property value: <Property name="ConnectionPassword">admin</Property> A password specified as an attribute value: <Connector protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" password="wso2carbon" /> Note that with the previous version of the Cipher tool (1.0.0-wso2v2), which was valid for Carbon 4.2.0, it was only possible to encrypt property values.  With the new Cipher tool for Carbon 4.4.x, when you set the xpath to the password you want to encrypt, you need to use the 'true/false' setting depending on whether the password is defined as a property value or an attribute value. For property values, the xpath should be followed by 'false' and for attribute values, the xpath should be followed by 'true'. Consider the following examples from the cipher-tool.properties file in Carbon Kernel: Code Block configuration/datasources/datasource[name='WSO2_CARBON_DB']/definition[@type='RDBMS']/configuration/password,false Server.Service.Connector.keystorePass=repository/conf/tomcat/catalina-server.xml//Server/Service/Connector[@keystorePass],true

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