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pavan
Former Employee
8 years ago

Encrypt and decrypt sensitive data in a source

Created by @pavan This pipeline pattern will encrypt fields passed as JSON docs using a defined transform type (AES), and decrypts and gives back the original message. This pattern is useful for...
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andrew_holbrook
New Contributor III
8 years ago

@pavan Once encrypted, do I need to pass all the information onward? Is it a security risk to do so?

ENC {
  "transformation":"AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding",
  "iv":"[MYIV]",
  "type":"STRING",
  "ciphertext":"[MYCIPHERTEXT==]",
  "key_params":  {
    "passphrase":  {
      "key_gen_iterations":10000,
      "key_gen_algorithm":"[ALGORITHM]",
      "key_algorithm":"AES",
      "key_salt":"[SALTKEY]",
      "key_size":128
    }
  }
}:ENC