flam4_manual-flam4_commands-flam-paascii

PAASCII

Synopsis

HELP:   Password in ASCII for en/de-crypting in AES or FLAMENC mode (default: FLAMENC).
TYPE:   STRING
SYNTAX: PAASCII='bin-ascii'

Description

Password in ASCII (used in WINDOWS only). Is equal to parameter password.

See also parameters MODE, CRYPTOMODE, PASSWORD, PAXWORD or PAEBCDIC.

Regardless of the encryption algorithm, a key should consist of at least 6 - 8 characters and it should at least contain 1 character from the following sets:

Lower case letters
Upper case letters
Numbers 0 - 9
Punctuation characters

Syntax restrictions for FLAMv4 or older:

paascii=password
paa=password

Values

String with a length of 1 to 64 characters. The password is converted to ASCII before it is used.

Default

No default value can be set for PASSWORD.

Valid for:

compression
decompression