https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874462#M26567 <P>SAS005 uses a fixed key, a 64bit random salt, the SHA256 hash, and 10000 iterations to generate an encryption key for AES.</P> <P>SAS003 uses a fixed key, a 16bit random salt, the SHA1 hash, and 1200 iterations to generate an encryption key for AES.</P> <P>Due to the use of a longer salt, better hash algorithm, and is hashed for more iterations, SAS005 is more secure.</P> Mon, 08 May 2023 14:32:27 GMT doug_sas 2023-05-08T14:32:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874447#M26565 Hello Team, In our project, generally we use {SAS003} which uses 16-bit in encrypting the password. Can we use the {SAS005} which is the 64-bit for the same in terms of more secure. Want to know which one is more secure in encrypting the password. Is it {SAS003} or {SAS005}. Thanks in Advance, Siddhu1 Mon, 08 May 2023 13:02:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874447#M26565 siddhu1 2023-05-08T13:02:18Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874462#M26567 <P>SAS005 uses a fixed key, a 64bit random salt, the SHA256 hash, and 10000 iterations to generate an encryption key for AES.</P> <P>SAS003 uses a fixed key, a 16bit random salt, the SHA1 hash, and 1200 iterations to generate an encryption key for AES.</P> <P>Due to the use of a longer salt, better hash algorithm, and is hashed for more iterations, SAS005 is more secure.</P> Mon, 08 May 2023 14:32:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874462#M26567 doug_sas 2023-05-08T14:32:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874567#M26579 <P>If you store the encrypted passwords in open code, these are easily open to reuse by other SAS users regardless of the encryption method.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Mon, 08 May 2023 22:17:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/More-secure-using-SAS003-or-SAS005/m-p/874567#M26579 SASKiwi 2023-05-08T22:17:53Z