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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:40 pm    Post subject: MFT encryption Reply with quote

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I am exploring options for encryption and decryption of files that are transferred by IBM MQ MFT.

MFT has various security capabilities, as listed at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_9.0.0/com.ibm.wmqfte.doc/security_main.htm . This includes MQ channel TLS encryption, and MQ AMS queue encryption.

Is anyone aware of other methods that can be used to encrypt file contents in transit and at rest through MFT and MQ, so that only clear data exist in the source file and destination file? Is it practical to do this using MFT exits?
I would like to avoid using an extra step before and after the MFT transfer, such as running PGP or OpenSSH on the file contents. Ideally, the source and destinations should be able to specify keys (secret, or public / private).
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No replies thus far. Does anyone have any interest that might warrant an RFE? It could be done using Java native JCA (java.security) or JCE (javax.crypto), but support for encryption / decryption / key management in MFT would not be a trivial exercise.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Glenn,
I thought that using AMS would have been the way to go?

Your encryption is done in transit and at rest. And java (i.e.) the file agent supports this.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Hi Glenn,

UFM uses JCE (javax.crypto) for message encryption as messages are transferred between the different points. Hence, the messages are encrypted for both "in transit" and "at rest".

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gbaddeley
PostPosted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Re: AMS, it would be a solution, but we have thousands of MFT agents spread across dozens of qmgrs, and not currently using AMS anywhere. It would be a significant undertaking to implement AMS just for this purpose.

Re: UFM, a good example of implementing encryption using JCE. Thanks for pointing that out, Roger.

It looks like we will continue using MFT and run GnuPG (aka GPG) before/after fteAnt file transfer requests.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Remember as you use encryption before and after transferring the file, you also loose the capability to handle text files in different environments and change encoding (ex unix/ascii, ascii/ebcdic) etc...
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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fjb_saper wrote:
Remember as you use encryption before and after transferring the file, you also loose the capability to handle text files in different environments and change encoding (ex unix/ascii, ascii/ebcdic) etc...

Indeed, all encrypted files must be transferred as binary, and any required encoding / EOL conversion handled by the apps at either end.
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