FND_USER encryption

Hi,
We are looking to develop an application that resets a user password programatically, but we don't have enough detailed information about how the fields ENCRYPTED_USER_PASSWORD and ENCRYPTED_FOUNDATION_PASSWORD in the table FND_USER are actually generated by the security admin screens. I have found articles that describe the dependancy on the APPL/APPLSYS passwords, but this isn't complete enough.
For example, it appears that in the case of two users "JOE" and "BOB", setting their password both to "SECRET" using te admin screen creates ENCRYPTED_USER_PASSWORD fields with the same contents, but ENCRYPTED_FOUNDATION_PASSWORD's that are different (is the user id part of the key fed to DBMS_OBSFUCATE ?).
Any help in this area or pointers to people that could help would be much appreciated,
Dave Vinell.

The API fnd_user_pkg.UpdateUser truncates the End date, and I am right now using this to End date the user, and the user cannot access his account on his/her last day.Are you trying to end date the user account using this API?
What is the END_DATE set for? Is it SYSDATE or something different?
Please see old threads for similar discussion -- https://forums.oracle.com/forums/search.jspa?threadID=&q=fnd_user_pkg.updateuser&objID=c3&dateRange=all&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001
Is there any other alternative API to update the end date for a user with the timestamp, and how is the last day for an employee in HR and FND User usually defined.No alternative API to update such details in FND_USER
Thanks,
Hussein

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Any help much appreciated.

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Is it possible to make the fnd_user table as an authenticator to weblogic

Hi,
I am looking for a way to make fnd_user table as an authenticator for a weblogic users.
Is it possible in first place without OVD and SSO ? My goal is to have fnd_users involve in human task approvals.
Thanks
Sai

I think your question is: how do you compare the encrypted password in FND_USER to the password that the end user entered in your custom application front end?
If that is indeed your question, you can decrypt the password in FND_USER as follows:
1) Take the standard fnd_web_sec package and make a copy called cust_fnd_web_sec. Delete all procedures in the package body except for decrypt. Then add decrypt to the package spec.
create or replace PACKAGE apps.cust_fnd_web_sec AUTHID CURRENT_USER AS
function decrypt(key in varchar2, value in varchar2)
return varchar2;
END cust_FND_WEB_SEC;
create or replace PACKAGE BODY apps.cust_fnd_web_sec AS
-- Exception
dml_inside_query exception;
pragma exception_init(dml_inside_query,-14551);
-- Function to encrypt a string using a specified key.
function decrypt(key in varchar2, value in varchar2)
return varchar2
as language java name 'oracle.apps.fnd.security.WebSessionManagerProc.decrypt(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) return java.lang.String';
END cust_FND_WEB_SEC;
2) Run the following query to decrypt the password.
WITH guest AS
SELECT 'GUEST/ORACLE' user_pwd,
UPPER (SUBSTR ('GUEST/ORACLE',
1,
INSTR ('GUEST/ORACLE',
- 1
) user_name
FROM DUAL)
SELECT distinct u.user_name,
apps.cust_fnd_web_sec.decrypt
((SELECT apps.cust_fnd_web_sec.decrypt
(g.user_pwd,
u.encrypted_foundation_password
) apps_password
FROM apps.fnd_user u,
apps.guest g
WHERE u.user_name = g.user_name),
u.encrypted_user_password
) decrypted_user_password
FROM apps.fnd_user u,
apps.fnd_user_resp_groups_direct r
where u.user_id = r.user_id
and u.user_name = <user name>
Good luck!
Scot

What kind of encryption is using?

Dear all,
I am using oracle application version 11.5.8 and the oracle database version is
9.2.0.4. When I am login the oracle application, what type of encryption is?
How can I know?
Best Regards,
Amy

Oracle Applications uses it's own encryption for username passwords in
FND_ORACLE_USERID and FND_USER
There might be some information in the 11i SysAdmin documentation
but Oracle doesn't provide a procedure to decrypt the passwords !
(one thing I know is that the APPS database account password is used to as a seed when encrypting other passwords).
You could check the 11i documentation or raise this query in the 11i forums.
The Oracle Database itself doesn't use encryption for passwords but a
one-way hash.

Default Encrypted Password

Dear All,
i want to insert encrypted Password of 'password' string into table user_dtl column PASSWORD .
How can i insert Encripted password into table.
Thanks

Hi Vedant,
See the CUSTOM_HASH function that is installed with sample application in the APEX.
Here is the code for it:
create or replace function custom_hash (p_username in varchar2, p_password in varchar2)
return varchar2
is
l_password varchar2(4000);
l_salt varchar2(4000) := 'XFSPL28ZTWEWWM6FHWMK68AG5NQVLU';
begin
-- This function should be wrapped, as the hash algorithm is exposed here.
-- You can change the value of l_salt or the method of which to call the
-- DBMS_OBFUSCATOIN toolkit, but you much reset all of your passwords
-- if you choose to do this.
l_password := utl_raw.cast_to_raw(dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.md5
(input_string => p_password || substr(l_salt,10,13) || p_username ||
substr(l_salt, 4,10)));
return l_password;
end;
i want to insert encrypted Password of 'password' string into table user_dtl column PASSWORD.The above function will give the encrypted password which can be inserted into USER_DTL as follows:
INSERT INTO USER_DTL(USERNAME,PASSWORD) VALUES(:P1_USERNAME, CUSTOM_HASH(:P1_USERNAME,:P1_PASSWORD))Be sure that PASSWORD column in USER_DTL is of type VARCHAR2 and of adequate length as to accommodate the encrypted password.
Hope it helps!
Regards,
Kiran

Bit locker drive encryption failed due to power failer and hard disk corrupted

I ran Bitlocker drive ecryption drive D. My pc is windows 7 ultimate, while it was in progress of 1% due to power failer the encryption failed, when power resume the drive didn't showed the file format nor the size but it shows the size in disk management.
It showed like this in My computer
I do Have the recovery code password and back of recovery password so I ran the "manage-bde-_unlock D:-rp[my code ]
and my pc got hang no other option rather than to press the restart button.
then I used commang "repair-bde -force D:I:-rp[my rp] and following info showed but it stucked in 1% about 8 hours, and there was no increase in the pecentage
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Hi,
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Bitlocker-repair (repair-bde) tool
can't repair a drive that failed during the encryption or decryption process.
In addition, could you please explain a bit for what drive you are trying to deal with? external one?
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Regarding your scenario, please take a look to see if the following articles could help here:
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Besides, when running manage-bde command, did we followed the steps mentioned in the below article?
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Data Recovery from Partitioned and formatted Bit Locker Encrypted Drive

Recently because of some issues in windows 7 installation from windows 8 installed OS. it was giving as the disc is dynamic windows can not be installed on it. so at last after struggling hard no other solution i partitioned and formatted my whole
drive so all data gone included the drive which was encrypted by bit lockers.
For recovery i used many software such as ontrack easy recover, get data back, recovery my files professional edition but still i couldnt able to recover my data from that drive. then i found some suggestion Using CMD to decrypt my data first
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523219(WS.10).aspx
where it shows it successfully decrypt my data at that moment my drives were in RAW format excluding on which windows is installed and then in CMD i check Chdsk which also shows no problem found. but now problem is still i coudnt able to recover
my data then i format the drive D and again tried to recover data using above software after decryption still no result.
Now i need assistance how i can recover my encrypted drive as it was partitioned and also formatted but decrypted also as i have its recovery key too. thanks

Hi ,
I am afraid that we cannot get the data back if the drive has been formatted even if use the
BitLocker Repair Tool.
You’d better contact your local data recovery center to try to get data back.
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MBean creation: Encrypted = "true" doesnt work in MBeanAttribute

Hello!
I'm trying to create a custom AuthenticationProvider for WLS7 (up to
date with service packs) and use the
weblogic.management.commo.WebLogicMBeanMaker to create the necessary
stubs. The authanticator should remember the system user and its
password, so I created the following two <MBeanAttribute>s for the
MBeanType:
<MBeanAttribute Name="SystemUser" Type="java.lang.String"
Writeable="true" Default=""system"" CachingDisabled="false"
CurrencyTimeLimit="-1" Deprecated="false"
GenerateExtendedAccessors="false" IsIs="false" Iterable="false"
LegalNull="true" Listen="false" Log="false" NoDoc="false"
NoDump="false" Readable="true" Visibility="1" />
<MBeanAttribute Name="SystemPassword" Type="java.lang.String"
Writeable="true" Default=""password"" Encrypted="true"
CachingDisabled="false" CurrencyTimeLimit="-1" Deprecated="false"
GenerateExtendedAccessors="false" IsIs="false" Iterable="false"
LegalNull="true" Listen="false" Log="false" NoDoc="false"
NoDump="false" Readable="true" Visibility="1" />
It works fine as long as I leave out Encrypted="true" in the
SystemPassword, but if I do this, I can find the password hanging
around in cleartext in the /domain/userConfig/Security-folders. If I
use Encrypted="true" it compiles fine, the server starts up fine, I
can configure it without a problem. But as soon as I set the password
in the admin-console and restart the server I get the following
Exception:
<07.06.2003 18:49:51 CEST> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <000364>
<Server failed during initialization.
Exception:weblogic.management.configuration.ConfigurationException: -
with nested exception:
[java.lang.NullPointerException]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at weblogic.security.internal.SerializedSystemIni.getEncryptionService(SerializedSystemIni.java:225)
at weblogic.management.commo.CommoModelMBean.getAttribute(CommoModelMBean.java:319)
at javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.setAttribute(RequiredModelMBean.java:1681)
at weblogic.management.commo.CommoModelMBean.setAttribute(CommoModelMBean.java:136)
at weblogic.management.commo.CommoModelMBean.load(CommoModelMBean.java:616)
at weblogic.management.commo.Commo.initInstances(Commo.java:241)
at weblogic.management.commo.Commo.init(Commo.java:125)
at weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initializeCommo(AdminServerAdmin.java:477)
at weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initialize(AdminServerAdmin.java:108)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize1(T3Srvr.java:664)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:594)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:282)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
--------------- nested within: ------------------
weblogic.management.configuration.ConfigurationException: - with
nested exception:
[java.lang.NullPointerException]
at weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initializeCommo(AdminServerAdmin.java:486)
at weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initialize(AdminServerAdmin.java:108)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize1(T3Srvr.java:664)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:594)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:282)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
>
Any ideas what could be wrong? What kind of encryption service does it
look for?
Thanks for any idea that could be useful.
Regards
Thomas

This is a known issue. Contact [email protected] for a patch.
Satya wrote:
This indeed looks like a bug, please enter a case with support.
Thanks,
-satya
Thomas wrote:
Hello!
I'm trying to create a custom AuthenticationProvider for WLS7 (up to
date with service packs) and use the
weblogic.management.commo.WebLogicMBeanMaker to create the necessary
stubs. The authanticator should remember the system user and its
password, so I created the following two <MBeanAttribute>s for the
MBeanType:
<MBeanAttribute Name="SystemUser" Type="java.lang.String"
Writeable="true" Default=""system"" CachingDisabled="false"
CurrencyTimeLimit="-1" Deprecated="false"
GenerateExtendedAccessors="false" IsIs="false" Iterable="false"
LegalNull="true" Listen="false" Log="false" NoDoc="false"
NoDump="false" Readable="true" Visibility="1" />
<MBeanAttribute Name="SystemPassword" Type="java.lang.String"
Writeable="true" Default=""password"" Encrypted="true"
CachingDisabled="false" CurrencyTimeLimit="-1" Deprecated="false"
GenerateExtendedAccessors="false" IsIs="false" Iterable="false"
LegalNull="true" Listen="false" Log="false" NoDoc="false"
NoDump="false" Readable="true" Visibility="1" />
It works fine as long as I leave out Encrypted="true" in the
SystemPassword, but if I do this, I can find the password hanging
around in cleartext in the /domain/userConfig/Security-folders. If I
use Encrypted="true" it compiles fine, the server starts up fine, I
can configure it without a problem. But as soon as I set the password
in the admin-console and restart the server I get the following
Exception:
<07.06.2003 18:49:51 CEST> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <000364>
<Server failed during initialization.
Exception:weblogic.management.configuration.ConfigurationException: -
with nested exception:
[java.lang.NullPointerException]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
weblogic.security.internal.SerializedSystemIni.getEncryptionService(SerializedSystemIni.java:225)
at
weblogic.management.commo.CommoModelMBean.getAttribute(CommoModelMBean.java:319)
at
javax.management.modelmbean.RequiredModelMBean.setAttribute(RequiredModelMBean.java:1681)
at
weblogic.management.commo.CommoModelMBean.setAttribute(CommoModelMBean.java:136)
at
weblogic.management.commo.CommoModelMBean.load(CommoModelMBean.java:616)
at weblogic.management.commo.Commo.initInstances(Commo.java:241)
at weblogic.management.commo.Commo.init(Commo.java:125)
at
weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initializeCommo(AdminServerAdmin.java:477)
at
weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initialize(AdminServerAdmin.java:108)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize1(T3Srvr.java:664)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:594)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:282)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
--------------- nested within: ------------------
weblogic.management.configuration.ConfigurationException: - with
nested exception:
[java.lang.NullPointerException]
at
weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initializeCommo(AdminServerAdmin.java:486)
at
weblogic.management.AdminServerAdmin.initialize(AdminServerAdmin.java:108)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize1(T3Srvr.java:664)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.initialize(T3Srvr.java:594)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.run(T3Srvr.java:282)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:32)
Any ideas what could be wrong? What kind of encryption service does it
look for?
Thanks for any idea that could be useful.
Regards
Thomas
Rajesh Mirchandani
Developer Relations Engineer
BEA Support

Encrypted="true" does not encrypt MBean attribute

Hi,
I have developed a Custom Weblogic Security Service Provider. I have also created
an MBean
to manage my provider. One of my MBean attributes is as follows:
<MBeanAttribute
Name = "JdbcPassword"
DisplayMessage = "The JDBC Password to the security database"
Type = "java.lang.String"
Writeable = "true"
Encrypted = "true"
Default = ""password""
/>
I have specified Encryped="true" above, however, the value I put in the Weblogic
Console
is still seen in cleartext in the config.xml. Why isnt it being encrypted? Or
do I misunderstand
the purpose of the Encrypted attribute?
Thanks,
Proneel.

"Proneel Guptan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi,
I have developed a Custom Weblogic Security Service Provider. I have
also created
an MBean
to manage my provider. One of my MBean attributes is as follows:
<MBeanAttribute
Name = "JdbcPassword"
DisplayMessage = "The JDBC Password to the security database"
Type = "java.lang.String"
Writeable = "true"
Encrypted = "true"
Default = ""password""
/>
I have specified Encryped="true" above, however, the value I put in the
Weblogic
Console
is still seen in cleartext in the config.xml. Why isnt it being encrypted?
Or
do I misunderstand
the purpose of the Encrypted attribute?
Thanks,
Proneel.Hi Proneel,
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RBACx Encrypted Password Change Utility

Hi all,
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To change the default database password, use the RBACx Encrypted Password Change Utility"
Could you please help me finding out this tool.
Many thanks in advance.
Warm regards,
Manipradeep Sunku.

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Goldengate 11.1.1.1 Oracle 11.2 Encrypted tablespace

Please advise why this error is showing and help us on this situation
Line: -----
Windows 2008 x64
Oracle 11.2.0.1 x64
Oracle Goldengate 11.1.1.1 x64
++++++++++++SOURCE++++++++++++++
sql>conn / as sysdba
**************CREATE TABLESPACE AND TABLE********************
CREATE TABLESPACE encrypted_ts
DATAFILE 'd:\oradata\test\encrypted_ts01.dbf' SIZE 128K
SIZE 15M
AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 20M
MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
LOGGING
ENCRYPTION USING 'AES192'
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
DEFAULT NOCOMPRESS STORAGE(ENCRYPT);
CREATE TABLE TESTA
ID NUMBER,
NAME VARCHAR2(16 CHAR)
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
NOCACHE
NOPARALLEL
MONITORING;
cmd> mkstore -wrl d:\test\wallet -createEntry ORACLE.SECURITY.CL.ENCRYPTION.ORACLEGG
Enter <secret> : test
cmd>mkstore -wrl d:\test\wallet -viewEntry ORACLE.SECURITY.CL.ENCRYPTION.ORACLEGG
ORACLE.SECURITY.CL.ENCRYPTION.ORACLEGG = test
sql>ALTER SYSTEM SET ENCRYPTION WALLET CLOSE IDENTIFIED BY 'welcome1';
sql>ALTER SYSTEM SET ENCRYPTION WALLET OPEN IDENTIFIED BY 'welcome1';
Compile dbms_internal_clkm package.
sql>@prvtclkm.plb
sql>GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_INTERNAL_CLKM TO GGS_OWNER;
**********************************GOLDENGATE******************************************
ggsci>dblogin userid ggs_owner, ggs_owner
ggsci>add extract ext2ts, tranlog, begin now
ggsci>add rmttrail D:\ggs\dirdat\ts, extract ext2ts
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Encrypted password: AACAAAAAAAAAAAEAZAMEFCPGPEOHYDHE
ggsci>edit params ext2ts
EXTRACT ext2ts
USERID ggs_owner, PASSWORD ggs_owner
RMTHOST 192.168.0.2, MGRPORT 7809
RMTTRAIL D:\ggs\dirdat\ts
DBOPTIONS DECRYPTPASSWORD AACAAAAAAAAAAAEAZAMEFCPGPEOHYDHE ENCRYPTKEY DEFAULT -- ???
TABLE TESTA;
+++++++++++++TARGET++++++++++++++++
sql> conn / as sysdba
**************CREATE TABLESPACE AND TABLE********************
cmd>
CREATE TABLESPACE ts
LOGGING DATAFILE 'd:\oradata\test\ts.dbf'
SIZE 15M
AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 20M
EXTENT MANAGEMENT
LOCAL SEGMENT SPACE
MANAGEMENT AUTO;
CREATE TABLE TESTA
ID NUMBER,
NAME VARCHAR2(16 CHAR)
LOGGING
NOCOMPRESS
NOCACHE
NOPARALLEL
MONITORING;
************************************GOLDENGATE*****************************************
ggsci>DBLOGIN USERID ggs_owner, PASSWORD ggs_owner
ggsci>ADD CHECKPOINTTABLE GGS_OWNER.CHKPTAB
ggsci>ADD REPLICAT rep1, EXTTRAIL D:\ggs\dirdat\ts, CHECKPOINTTABLE GGS_OWNER.CHKPTAB
ggsci>EDIT PARAMS rep1
REPLICAT rep1
ASSUMETARGETDEFS
USERID ggs_owner, PASSWORD ggs_owner
MAP GGS_OWNER.TESTA, TARGET GGS_OWNER.TESTA;
+++++++++++++TARGET+++++++++++++++
ggsci>start replicat rep1
+++++++++++++SOURCE+++++++++++++++
ggsci>start extract ext2ts
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EXTRACT - REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2011-07-05 11:46:50 ERROR OGG-01028 ORA-06521: PL/SQL: Error mapping function
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_INTERNAL_CLKM", line 3
ORA-06512: at line 1.
2011-07-05 11:46:50 ERROR OGG-01668 PROCESS ABENDING.
Edited by: Oyunbold on Jul 7, 2011 3:25 AM
Edited by: Oyunbold on Jul 19, 2011 6:09 PM

Yesterday, I met the same problem. How do you solve it ? Plz, help me.
OS : AIX 5.3
DB : Oracle 11.1.0.7
OGG : 11.1.1.1
2011-09-06 15:26:56 INFO OGG-01515 Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, eora01.prm: Positioning to begin time Sep 2, 2011 6:50:49 PM.
2011-09-06 15:26:56 ERROR OGG-01028 Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, eora01.prm: ORA-12427: invalid input value for FLAGS parameter ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_INTERNAL_CLKM", line 3 ORA-06512: at line 1.
2011-09-06 15:26:56 ERROR OGG-01668 Oracle GoldenGate Capture for Oracle, eora01.prm: PROCESS ABENDING.
Our Extract configuration is below :
EXTRACT EORA01
USERID ogg, PASSWORD AACAAAAAAAAAAADAHBMDHBECUCZBPIYE, encryptkey XKEY
DBOPTIONS DECRYPTPASSWORD AACAAAAAAAAAAAIARIXFKCQBMFIGFARA ENCRYPTKEY DEFAULT
ENCRYPTTRAIL
exttrail ./dirdat/ea
EOFDELAYCSECS 50
FLUSHCSECS 50
DISCARDFILE ./dirrpt/EORA01.DSC, APPEND, MEGABYTES 500
DISCARDROLLOVER AT 07:30
TABLE TVANBT.TLF_BUYS_MISS;
...

Does iTunes have a default password for initial encrypted backups?

I have an iPhone that was connected to iTunes for the first time today. It is a company device and IT has set a policy to require backups to be encrypted.
When I first plugged the phone in, iTunes automatically did a backup as it had never seen the device before. Due to a software issue, Apple recommended that I do a restore to factory settings and then restore from backup, so once the initial backup was completed, I performed the restore to factory just fine. However, when I attempted to restore from backup, I was prompted for a password even though I was never prompted for a password when iTunes created the backup. I have tried every password I can think of including my company domain password, iTunes password, iPhone passcode, etc...etc...to no avail.
Does anyone know if there is some default password that iTunes using when doing an initial backup without prompting the user for a password?

Caronold -
I have the same problem when i updated to iOS6 3days ago from iOS5.1.1. I've tried every passwords i can think of but NO luck.
Even the folks at genious bar said : good luck!!
A Third party software that can decrypt?

Can my MacBook Pro use boot camp with Windows 7 with BitLocker encryption?

I'm at wit's end with this, and I'm hoping I can get some advice here. I've read so many forum, posts and reviews that I'm not entirely sure what I can trust.
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,3). I need to run Windows encrypted for work purposes. It needs to be real windows with full-disk encryption (FDE). The business tools run in boot camp, but not in Parallels, because Parallels doesn't support DirectX 11. I would also benefit greatly from an SSD.
I do not want to do anything hacky like removing the Mac reocovery partition, because I've read that just loading Disk Utility in OS X might mess up your patrition boot tables as it tries to "fix" things. I don't want to have to manually reocover to fix stuff or chance losing data.
I have read (and tried) installing BitLocker on Windows 7 Ultimate under boot camp, but ran into the partition limit on my internal HDD. A maximum of 4 partitions are allowed, and between OS X, its recovery, boot camp, and the Windows partition, all 4 are used.
I have considered one of the following, which may work:
Install OWC's Data Doubler Kit with an additional 240GB SSD (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDMBS6E240/). I would replace the internal SuperDrive with the HDD, and install the new SSD on the faster SATA 6G port. Windows would be installed on the SSD and OS X would stay on the HDD.
Replace the internal HDD with a new SSD (keeping the SuperDrive). I would lose OS X altogether and just have Windows installed.
Forget the entire thing and just buy a PC for work.
My thoughts are that with option both options #1 and #2, I don't even know if these setups will allow BitLocker. In both cases, Windows will be the only partition on the drive, so I'm assuming that when BitLocker is installed, there will be room for the new partition it creates. With option #1, I'm pretty sure I'd still be using Boot Camp, but how would that would for option #2? Is boot camp used even though there is no Mac partition? Would I still need to keey the Mac Recovery partition for this to work? I'd probably need to use Boot Camp drivers under Windows, I think.
I'd certainly be interested in using a self-encrypting drive (SED), especially a SSD, but I'm concerned that most of them appear to require TPM or BIOS functions that Mac's EFI does not provide. Such a drive would allow me to drop BitLocker, but I would need to be use the self-encryption actually works on this setup. From what I've read, most of the SED drives will work just fine under EFI, but you won't be able to set or access the encryption password, which pretty much makes these drives unencrypted.
I've read that BitLocker can be configured to use a flash drive as a decryption key, but I haven't been able to test that yet. I'm tried creating bootable flash drives under Windows and OS X, and none of them seem to appear when I access the boot menu (hold option during boot chime). I don't even know if this system supports bootable USB flash drives, or whether they can be used as a BitLocker key under boot camp.
For the record, I have attempted to use an external thunderbolt drive as my Windows partition, but Windows doesn't want to be installed on removable media, and even if it worked, I believe you can only boot OS X from thunderbolt. I do have a second OS X install booting from the thunderbolt drive, so I know that works. Also, FileVault 2 is installed on my OS X partition, and I read something about FV2 using the Recovery partition somehow so you can't remove the recovery partition to make room for BitLocker.
So ... does anyone have any suggestions preferably based on personal experience as to whether options #1 or #2 should work for my needs?
At this point, I'm really thinking I should just bite the bullet and purchase a PC that I will forever look down upon.

Are you using a MacBook Pro? Is everything installed on the same drive?
I would love to know how that install was performed. When I install Windows under boot camp, my MacBook Pro drive ends up with 4 partitions: Mac, Mac Recovery, Windows, and a small partition that I believe is used by boot camp.
Installing BitLocker on Windows requires the creation of a new small partition that Windows will boot off. The small partition is unencrypted, while the primary Windows partition will get encrypted. The following post discusses the maximum partition issue: https://discussions.apple.com/message/22753791#22753791
Has anyone installed Windows through boot camp on it's own drive, and if so, can BitLocker be installed on that without reaching any partition limit? I'm assuming that's possible, but would like to know before I spend hundreds on new hardware.

Can't connect to router through airport (problem with encryption)

We have a small office network with several computers connected to a wireless router. A while back all the macs using airport suddenly were no longer able to connect to the internet (email still worked fine) while the windows computers on wireless and macs on lan still work fine.
The router is using WPA personal encryption, and when using this the macs can connect to the wireless network no problems, but then they aren't able to use the internet. as i said though email still works without any problems. We spoke to the tech support at our ISP but macs aren't very common in south africa, so they just suggest we change the encryption from WPA to WEP encryption. I tried both 64 bit and 128 bit but every time i get an error saying: There was an error joining airport network. If I turn off encryption though everything works fine and the macs are able to access the internet without any problems. Anybody have any ideas what might be wrong?

I am having the same problems since 3 days ago (Imac core 2 duo 20" 2,16). I think it was after the 10.4.10 upgrade.
I haven't tested if I can connect an open network (without encryption).
I can't connect to internet using the wifi network... sometimes, i can't even locate the SSID's network.
Even using windows xp with bootcamp i can't use the network, so it's really strange. This can only be firmware/hardware... cause XP on my mac was able to connect and now it can't too. I tried with other computers (notebook) and i can connect without problems.
Have you solved this issue ?
Anyone can help?
Joao Oliveira

Can i recover lost data from encrypted drive by Bitlocker

Hello Dears. I had encrypted my drive by Bitlocker in windows 7.
few days after my friend did quick format in my encrypted drive.
my 300 gb of data lost. and nothing saved
i remember unlock password.
how can i recover my data ??? i need my data
i tried drive recovering tools (advanced EFS data recovery, easeus . . ,) . but . . . it's encrypted and formatted drive.
can i undo quick format and decrypt ???
sorry my english is not good.
someone help me please.

BitLocker is not the cause of failed to recover files.
Format a drive will clear all data saved on the hard disk. Thus recovery formatted data will be a hard disk based technology but not related to operation system. There is no build-in data recovery feature in Windows operations. So we will needto use third party recovery tool or contact third party data recovery company for current issue.
As recovery missing data service will be expensive, we can also check emails and contact friends to see if that can help get a part of files back especially for photos, documents etc.

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