# Encryption **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux, Adabas-Natural-Cloud\ **Created:** [January 15, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450 "2019-01-15T13:20:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derick\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Derick\_Meyer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Derick_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/1 "2019-01-15T13:20:19Z")
Is it possible to encrypt data to store in adabas Like password that is stored in plain text ---
**Author:** ![James\_Gilpin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/james_gilpin1/32/152_2.png) [@James\_Gilpin1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/James_Gilpin1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/2 "2019-01-15T13:44:29Z")
[http://natural-adabas.blogspot.com/2006/06/adabas-security\_20.html](http://natural-adabas.blogspot.com/2006/06/adabas-security_20.html) Going back a few years, but yes, it is possible ---
**Author:** ![Derick\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Derick\_Meyer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Derick_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/3 "2019-01-15T14:34:35Z")
Thank You for the info is there a howto example to use to store the values in a encrypted format ---
**Author:** ![James\_Gilpin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/james_gilpin1/32/152_2.png) [@James\_Gilpin1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/James_Gilpin1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/4 "2019-01-15T14:39:11Z")
Which platform are you using? Mainframe? LUW? ---
**Author:** ![Derick\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Derick\_Meyer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Derick_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/5 "2019-01-15T15:12:08Z")
i am using luw natural for unix ---
**Author:** ![James\_Gilpin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/james_gilpin1/32/152_2.png) [@James\_Gilpin1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/James_Gilpin1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/6 "2019-01-15T15:24:11Z")
Are you asking if the database can manage the encryption? Or would you prefer to encrypt the data and then store it in the database? ---
**Author:** ![Derick\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Derick\_Meyer](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Derick_Meyer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/7 "2019-01-15T15:42:47Z")
I wish to encrypt the data and then store it in the database if possible ---
**Author:** ![James\_Gilpin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/james_gilpin1/32/152_2.png) [@James\_Gilpin1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/James_Gilpin1)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/8 "2019-01-15T19:12:55Z")
One option, fairly intensive… Use openssl to create a key pair (private/public) Create a script to encrypt Create a script to decrypt Create a subprogram to call the encrypt with the text to encrypt Create a subprogram to call the encrypt with the text to decrypt Another option - create an internal table and swap value by digit… - not real secure, but better than nothing Personally, I think you would be better off relying on encryption at rest - via ADASCR and storage utilities ---
**Author:** ![James\_Gilpin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/james_gilpin1/32/152_2.png) [@James\_Gilpin1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/James_Gilpin1)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/9 "2019-01-16T17:14:45Z")
Attached is an example program, subprogram, basic information for my previous instructions [example.txt](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/uploads/short-url/6cXnUg44QcJKUb3PnbpefecnYjG.txt) (3.13 KB) ---
**Author:** ![James\_Gilpin1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/james_gilpin1/32/152_2.png) [@James\_Gilpin1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/James_Gilpin1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/10 "2019-01-17T08:12:22Z")
FYI - For fun, I created a container based on the SoftwareAG Natural CE container that has this example code built in… [https://hub.docker.com/r/niceine/mynat](https://hub.docker.com/r/niceine/mynat) note: this is a linux container ---
**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/11 "2019-04-30T14:12:33Z")
> [@Derick Meyer](#): > > Is it possible to encrypt data to store in adabas > Like password that is stored in plain text The password issue is a special kind of thing. I would use a hash-algorithm (maybe with salt, see [Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)) ) Natural has an implemented sha1-Hash-Algorhythm. ```auto * DEFINE DATA LOCAL 1 #INPUT-PARAMETER 2 #I-STRING (A) DYNAMIC INIT <'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'> 1 #OUTPUT-PARAMETER 2 #SHA1-SUM (B20) LOCAL 1 #FUNC (I4) 1 #B156 (B156) END-DEFINE * #FUNC := 0 CALLNAT 'USR4011N' #FUNC #B156 #I-STRING #OUTPUT-PARAMETER.#SHA1-SUM write #SHA1-SUM END ``` The idea is to store the sha1-sum instead of the Password itself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/encryption/202450/12 "2021-04-02T15:42:08Z")