flcl_manual-flcl_commands-conv-read-binary-decrypt-f4pwd

F4PWD

Synopsis

HELP:   FLAM password decryption
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: F4PWD(PASSWORD/CRYPTOKEY='bin'/DEFAULT)

Description

Uses a password for FLAM4 password-based decryption. If you provide no password, a hardcoded default password is used.

Passwords can be provided in four different ways:

In hexadecimal format (recommended): password=x'hex'
In ASCII format: PASSWORD=a'ascii'
In EBCDIC format: PASSWORD=e'ebcdic'
In local charset: PASSWORD='system'

Don't use the local charset variant if you wish to open the file on different platforms.

IMPORTANT: Encrypting using the default password is strongly discouraged in production as this equals using a publicly known password! The data is merely obfuscated.

To prevent passwords from being logged and for a better protection, we recommend to store passwords in files and use that password file instead passing the password directly.

   DECRYPT.F4PWD(PASSWORD=f'pwd.txt')

In a password file, you can define the password in one of the variants described above.

Arguments

STRING: PASSWORD/CRYPTOKEY='bin'/DEFAULT - Passphrase to encrypt the FLAMFILE ['********']
- DEFAULT - FLAM4 default password