Central Key Management
RPA Admin Module offers centralized key management to system administrator with secure and versatile system. It enables easy automation of key, generation of certificate and distribution to any endpoint. In RPA, Central Key Management, Key and Passphrase combination is used for application credential encryption. Salt-Passphrase combination is configured as a database by default. It is extended to read values from a file system or via C# library API call.
The settings for Key and Salt values are defined in the web.config file of Admin Module. You can modify these values depending upon the business requirement. As per default security configuration, the permitted settings to form a key and a salt are:
· Minimum of 16 and maximum of 32 characters
· Combination of lower case (a-z) alphabets, upper case (A-Z) alphabets and numeric keys (0-9)
Accessing Central Key Management
To access the central key management:
1. Launch Central Key Management.
The Central Key Management system page is displayed.
2. In the Salt field, enter the salt value.
3. In the Passphrase 1 field, enter the passphrase 1 value.
4. In the Passphrase 2 field, enter the passphrase 2 value. Passphrase 2(Secondary key) is optional.
5. Click
Update to save the combination into the
defined store (DB/File System/DLL). The credentials are updated
simultaneously.
For security reasons, the existing key is not displayed on the
screen. Only, an update operation is permitted. The credentials
are updated into the defined store such as DB/File System/DLL.
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