https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Tips-from-the-Community/SAS-Tip-Check-for-SAS-data-set-encryption-another-method/m-p/436359#M49 <P>An automated way to test if a SAS data set is encrypted is to use SAS functions to open the data set, try to read a record, and then check for an error message via the SYSMSG function.</P> <HR /> <P>Thanks to Thomas Billings&nbsp;for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017:&nbsp;<A href="https://www.lexjansen.com/wuss/2017/23_Final_Paper_PDF.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methods to Identify and Validate SASProprietary and AES Encrypted SAS Data Sets</A>.</P> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:11:27 GMT SAS_Tipster 2019-01-28T18:11:27Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Tips-from-the-Community/SAS-Tip-Check-for-SAS-data-set-encryption-another-method/m-p/436359#M49 <P>An automated way to test if a SAS data set is encrypted is to use SAS functions to open the data set, try to read a record, and then check for an error message via the SYSMSG function.</P> <HR /> <P>Thanks to Thomas Billings&nbsp;for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017:&nbsp;<A href="https://www.lexjansen.com/wuss/2017/23_Final_Paper_PDF.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Methods to Identify and Validate SASProprietary and AES Encrypted SAS Data Sets</A>.</P> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:11:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Tips-from-the-Community/SAS-Tip-Check-for-SAS-data-set-encryption-another-method/m-p/436359#M49 SAS_Tipster 2019-01-28T18:11:27Z