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Re: secure storage of sensitive data in J2EE
From: Kevin Conaway <kevin.conaway () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:41:35 -0500
A followup question: Once the data (be it a password or a key) has been read into memory, what is an effective and secure way of minimizing the window that the plaintext key or password is in memory? If the data is read into a char [] and then overwritten with junk data, would that work? Kevin On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:18:15 +0000, chaim moshe <xor256 () hotmail com> wrote:
Hello list, where can I store sensitive data like encryption keys, passwords, etc. in J2EE? surely, you can save it in the keystore, but the catch is where do you store the keystore password to protect it from external access? storing the keystore password in code or in config files is not secured enough. In the .NET environment you have DPAPI that was designed exactly for this kind of problem, the sensitive data is encrypted at the OS level with the user/machine password and is decrypted at runtime. What is the solution in the J2EE environment ? Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
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