PortSight Secure Access Documentation

KB-SA-0005-How to provide custom encryption key for AES256 encryption in the Secure Access Web user interface

 

Date:

April 5, 2004

 

Applies to:

Secure Access 2.1 and any later version

 

Summary:

If you don't want to store encryption key and initialization vector in the web.config file of the Secure Access Web user interface, you can provide it using your own code. This article explains how to provide the key and vector from your own storage.

 

Solution:

The only thing you need to do is to open the SecureAccess Web project and to modify the following methods in the Functions.vb file:

These methods return encryption key and initialization vector used for AES256 encryption in the Secure Access Web user interface.