April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Before we begin, we have to download and install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) provided by Oracle. It consists of two JAR files (local_policy.jar and US_export_policy.jar), which need to override the existing policy files in the JRE lib/security directory.
If the remote property sources stored on the config server contain encrypted data, their values should be prefixed with {cipher} and wrapped in quotes to designate it as a YAML file. Wrapping in quotes is not necessary for .properties files. If such a value cannot be decrypted, it is replaced by an additional value (usually <n/a>) under the same key prefixed with invalid.
In our last sample, we stored the passphrase used for protecting the keystore file ...