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AndreaSteyn1-Visitor
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November 26, 2019
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Decrypt password in Service

  • November 26, 2019
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Hi guys,

 

I have a password as a property on a thing.  I however need the password to run a service.

 

Where or how do I generate the key required to decrypt the password with the decrypt service in the EncryptionServices resource?

 

var result = Resources["EncryptionServices"].DecryptWithKey({

data: "" /* STRING */,
key: "" /* STRING */
});

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posipova20-Turquoise
20-Turquoise
November 26, 2019

Helpcenter section on password encryption should be useful here:

http://support.ptc.com/help/thingworx_hc/thingworx_8_hc/en/#page/ThingWorx%2FHelp%2FInstallation%2FInstallation%2Fencrypting_passwords.html

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AndreaSteyn1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
December 2, 2019

Hi @posipova ,

 

Thank you for the response.  

 

I read through the documentation but it appears that is for licence encrypting.  I want to use a user password in a service.  I want to figure out if there is a way to safely decrypt it as an administrator user to be able to use the password in a service.


The decrypt service needs a key which I am not sure how to generate.  Can you perhaps give any suggestions?

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Constantine18-Opal
18-Opal
December 2, 2019

Hello @AndreaSteyn,

 

When you say "I want to use a user password in a service" you mean you want to use the password of a selected User entity? I'm not sure ThingWorx even stores user passwords, so there's nothing to decrypt, only hashes.

 

/ Constantine

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rosharma16-Pearl
16-Pearl
December 2, 2019

use encrpt/decrypt with custom key.

use 128 bit key

 

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var params1 = {
data: passwd_input /* STRING */,
key: "FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF" /* STRING */
};

// result: STRING
var result1 = Resources["EncryptionServices"].EncryptWithCustomKey(params1);


var params2 = {
encryptedData: result1 /* STRING */,
key: "FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF" /* STRING */
};

// result: STRING
var result = Resources["EncryptionServices"].DecryptWithCustomKey(params2);

 

 

 

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