topic decryption using the PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC algorithm in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/decryption-using-the-PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC-algorithm/m-p/460477#M117047 <P>I received a dataset last week that has some variables that contain encrypted data values. I was provided with the password and algorithm information, but am not sure how to implement this in SAS.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The algorithm is: PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC</P> <P>The data was encrypted using 1000 key iterations</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I know how to encrypt data using the SHA256 function, but I don’t know how to decrypt data using the algorithm above. Can you please provide a solution to this problem.</P> Mon, 07 May 2018 15:32:27 GMT Robert 2018-05-07T15:32:27Z decryption using the PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC algorithm https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/decryption-using-the-PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC-algorithm/m-p/460477#M117047 <P>I received a dataset last week that has some variables that contain encrypted data values. I was provided with the password and algorithm information, but am not sure how to implement this in SAS.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The algorithm is: PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC</P> <P>The data was encrypted using 1000 key iterations</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I know how to encrypt data using the SHA256 function, but I don’t know how to decrypt data using the algorithm above. Can you please provide a solution to this problem.</P> Mon, 07 May 2018 15:32:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/decryption-using-the-PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC-algorithm/m-p/460477#M117047 Robert 2018-05-07T15:32:27Z Re: decryption using the PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC algorithm https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/decryption-using-the-PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC-algorithm/m-p/461170#M117273 <P>Here is a page that has a Python decryption function that may outline the pieces needed:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="https://gist.github.com/bertramn/d22e88eba2ce432be016ab5d61595ab4" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/bertramn/d22e88eba2ce432be016ab5d61595ab4</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>My instinct may be wrong, but I think I might look at decrypting the data before reading it into SAS.</P> Wed, 09 May 2018 19:39:59 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/decryption-using-the-PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC-algorithm/m-p/461170#M117273 HB 2018-05-09T19:39:59Z