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You can set a central policy for using or accepting encrypted passwords in the the Administration module under Security User Management | Settings Settings by setting the Password Encryption Policy field.
The behavior according to the Password Encryption Policy setting is as follows:
Supported | The system can receive requests with encrypted password (default). |
Required | The system requires an encrypted password for every authenticated request. |
Unsupported | The system rejects requests with encrypted password. |
Using Your Secure Password
To secure your password:
- Open your profile page (click on your login name on the upper-right corner and select Edit Profile), type-in your password in the Current Password field and click Unlock.
- Once your profile is unlocked, click the corresponding icons next to your encrypted password to view it openly or copy it to the clipboard.
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The encryption mechanisms of the Oracle and IBM JDKs are not identical. Switching from one to another will make your encrypted password obsolete. |
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Some of the IBM JRE/JDK are shipped with a restriction on the encryption key size (mostly for countries outside the US); This restriction can be officially removed by downloading unrestricted policy files from IBM and overriding the existing ones:
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