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Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition
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Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition

by SAS Institute
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
2218 pages
209h 16m
English
SAS Institute
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naming rules, see “Rules for Most SAS Names” in Chapter 3 of SAS Language
Reference: Concepts.
The encoded password is never written to the SAS log in plain text. Instead, each
character of the password is replaced by an X in the SAS log.
Encoding versus Encryption
PROC PWENCODE uses encoding to disguise passwords. With encoding, one character
set is translated to another character set through some form of table lookup. Encryption,
by contrast, involves the transformation of data from one form to another through the use
of mathematical operations and, usually, a “key” value. Encryption is generally more
difficult to break than encoding. PROC PWENCODE ...
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