topic Alfresco Encryption in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Encryption

alfsender — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:47:36 GMT

Hi All,I have requirement where i have to store encrypted value in Alfresco. I know in Alfresco we have a type d:encrypted. For that i need to configure encryption certificate in Alfresco. What my problem is i can not do that, as there is an existing internal service with client that we have to use

Re: Alfresco Encryption

afaust — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:40:43 GMT

Hello,

a lot of points to cover here:

- d:encrypted is a special type of property where you can put any kind of data object that is serializable - but you can only update / read these kinds of properties from custom Java code which has to use the MetadataEncryptor utility bean of Alfresco
- you can store any kind of serializable data using d:any - if you've got a byte array of data, simply wrap that in a serializable Java object and put it in a d:any field
- you can not store any kind of input stream as these don't have any intrinsic value and only provide means to access some data from an arbitrary source (file, network, database, whatever)
- if you absolutely have / need to write your web script code in JavaScript, you will have to write up some extensions to the JavaScript API using Java

Regards
Axel

Re: Alfresco Encryption

alfsender — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:12:38 GMT

Thank you, this is what i was looking for.