Encrypting passwords for solidDB users by using OpenSSL

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By default, the passwords of users that are defined in solidDB are encrypted on the network by using the built-in DES algorithm. However, if you use the OpenSSL libcrypto library, you can enable strong encryption (that uses the AES-256 algorithm) by completing the following steps:

1 Install and configure the OpenSSL libcrypto library, see Installing and configuring the OpenSSL toolkit.

2 In the server-side solid.ini file, set the following values:

[General]
UseCryptoLib=yes
CryptoLoginRequired=yes

For more information, see General section.

3 In the client-side solid.ini files, set the following values:

[Client]
UseCryptoLib=yes

For more information, see Client section.

Note If you have configured the server to use encrypted passwords, all clients that connect to the server must be configured to use encrypted passwords.

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