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SAS Tip: Check for SAS data set encryption, another method

Posted 02-12-2018 02:06 PM (50309 views)

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.

Thanks to Thomas Billings for this tip. Read more details in this paper from WUSS 2017: Methods to Identify and Validate SASProprietary and AES Encrypted SAS Data Sets.

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