Forcing encryption in FASTCopy operation

Question:

In addition to setting up a proxy / virtual user (see related FAQ entry), I would like to force encryption during the file transfer. How should this be set up?

Answer:

Important: A special "Encryption Enabled" license is required for FASTCopy to use encryption. Please contact SoftLink Support (support@repliweb.com) for an encryption enabled evaluation license.

There are two changes that need to be made to a working FASTCopy file transfer to add encryption. The first occurs on the initiating side, and the other on the remote side.

Read Q31 Virtual User support before continuing.

On the remote side, the following changes must be made to the SoftLink security files.

These files are softLink.security and softLink.login, located in the /etc directory on UNIX, under SYS$MANAGER on OpenVMS or in the FASTCopy installation directory on Windows NT and 2000/XP).

First, modify the record in the softLink.login file to enforce encryption:

====
requester
criteria -l_user=yyy -l_password
action -approve -l_user=administrator -class=zzz -line_encrypt -line_cipher=des -line_phrase=hello!!!!
====

On the issuing side, add the following qualifiers to a working command line:

-line_encrypt -line_cipher=des -line_phrase=hello!!!!

The idea is that the qualifiers added to the command line match those in the security file. The line_cipher may be changed to one of over thirty supported encryption varieties (See the FASTCopy Release Notes), and the line_phrase should be a secret phrase shared by the two parties.


Related Topics:
WINDOWS
UNIX
SECURITY
FASTCopy

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