Encryption of Configuration Files

SAP Mobile Platform Server configuration files in SMP_HOME\Server\config_master\XXX folder support encrypted configuration values.

Within each configuration directory under config_master, there is a file called metaconfig.json. Within this file, the "apply strategy" should be set to "config admin". The master key for encrypting the encrypted configuration values is stored in theSMP_HOME \Server\props.ini file:
  • -DsecretKey=<PASSWORD>
  • -DsecretKeylength=<128|256>
The 256-bit key length works only if you replaced the JVM's encryption policy files; the decryption of these values happens transparently to the application. This also means that inside the SAP Mobile Platform Server, encrypted values are in clear text. To indicate that a value is encrypted, it must be prefixed with {enc}. An entry must look like:
- <KEY>={enc}<ENCRYPTED-VALUE>

CLIEncrypter

The SAP Mobile Platform Server includes an executable JAR in SMP_HOME\Server\tools\cipher folder to encrypt configuration values according to this specification. Simply run:
\tools\cipher>Java –jar CLIEncrypter.jar <KEY> <TEXT> [<KEYLENGTH>] 

The <KEY> must match the configured key from SMP_HOME\Server\props.ini, <KEYLENGTH> is optional and defaults to 128 bits - 256 will only work if you have updated your Java encryption policy file.

Alternative Method Using OSGi

The AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding encryption is used. The encrypted value is expected to be Base64-encoded, and the first 16 bytes are interpreted as the initialization vector (IV). The encryption key is derived from the password using PBKDF2HmacWithSHA1 hashing with the static salt {97,101,105,111,117,85,79,73,69} and 65536 iterations.
Note: The OSGi commands are executed through the OSGi shell console which is a server-based service. This is an alternative method for encrypting configuration values.
SAP Mobile Platform Server includes a command that encrypts configuration values according to this specification:
- >osgi>cm_security  enc <TEXT> 
Examples:
osgi>cm_security enc password   Encoded Text:QWIFsLnfJeE78tkRDx8ES3xDkNHbrbWdvNsEzfdv6IA= 
osgi>cm_security dec QWIFsLnfJeE78tkRDx8ES3xDkNHbrbWdvNsEzfdv6IA=Decoded Text:password 
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