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Amitha |
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:11 pm Post subject: Securing User ID Password |
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Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 80 Location: Newyork
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We are storing User ID, password as plain text in a Database lookup table. This user ID ,password are passed in a webservice request(either encrypted or plain).
How do we secure user id and password in database?
Not intending to use LDAP or TFIM. |
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mqjeff |
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 17447
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By asking the database to encrypt the table?
By writing code? |
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zpat |
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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 Jedi Council
Joined: 19 May 2001 Posts: 5866 Location: UK
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Look at security policy sets in WMB. |
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Amitha |
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:55 am Post subject: |
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 Voyager
Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 80 Location: Newyork
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You mean to say encrypt and store in DB and after retrieval decrypt it? these are look up tables, we insert records manually using insert sql. I don't know how to achieve this.
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Look at security policy sets in WMB. |
These are used for ws-security. what I am looking for is, storing user id password securely in database(encrytped), so that any human select on to the tables shouldn't be able to read the user id password.
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By asking the database to encrypt the table? |
I need to explore what options I have to do that on mainframe v7.1 db2. |
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mqjeff |
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Grand Master
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 17447
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Amitha wrote: |
You mean to say encrypt and store in DB and after retrieval decrypt it? these are look up tables, we insert records manually using insert sql. |
That is not a secure procedure for handling user ids and passwords.
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I don't know how to achieve this. |
Carefully.
Amitha wrote: |
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By asking the database to encrypt the table? |
I need to explore what options I have to do that on mainframe v7.1 db2. |
Yes. |
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paintpot |
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 112 Location: UK
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Amitha wrote: |
I need to explore what options I have to do that on mainframe v7.1 db2. |
Or possibly with mainframe v9.1 db2??!? |
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