Help With ASE Encryption

Hello friends,
Can anyone out there tell me or point me to information on how to set up the ASE_ENCRYPTION option for version 15.7?
I have an existing ASE installation for testing purposes. I want to install the encryption option there but I cannot locate any
step-by-step documentation on how to do that. The ASE 15.7 Encrypted Columns Users Guide simply states:
"Install the license option ASE_ENCRYPTION. See the Adaptive Server Enterprise Installation Guide."
and when I go to the ASE Installation Guide it refers me to the SySam User's Guide...
and when I go to the SySam User's Guide it gives no instructions on *how* to install the encryption option.
So, to summarize:
1.) Do I need to generate a license file that includes the ASE_ENCRYPTION option and start ASE with this license file? I was
told by someone at SAP that there should be a way to get and use this option for thirty days (grace license) while we test
and evaluate.
2.) If above is true, will this work with the Developer's Edition of ASE or do I have to get a Enterprise Edition SR or SV
license? (By the way, I do have an available SV license for Enterprise. I generated the license file and it shows that this license includes
a package of Components= ASE_CORE Options=SUITE)
Any help with this will be appreciated.

Thanks for your help Ajit,
I believe you are correct. I was told that the ASE_ENCRYPTION option was already packaged with the software so all I had to do was "turn it on". For some reason I was thinking it had to be installed via a script or something.
Anyway, I have successfully "turned on" the option using :
sp_configure "enable encrypted columns", 1
go
I will now attempt to create an encryption key and go forward with data encryption.
Thanks again for your input

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Hello I am trying to create a one way hash password encryption...here is what I have developed so far.....
Login class (contains GUI)
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
public class Login implements ActionListener
// declare class variables and objects
// overall frame
private FrameBase jf;
// buttons
private JButton btnNewUser,btnLogin;
// data display labels
private JLabel lblMessage, lblUser, lblPassword, lblTitle, lblCheck,lblNotes;
// text fields for data entry
private JTextField txtUser, txtPassword,txtCheck;
// graphic object
private BufferedImage eSay;
// panels for organization
private JPanel pnlTitle, pnlMain, pnlGraphic;
// font objects
private Font fntTitle, fntMain, fntControl,fntNotes;
// user name for repeated set screen calls
private String name;
// store screen layout option code
private int option;
// option 1 - regular start-up
// option 2 - new user screen
// option 3 - user / password check
public Login(String name)
    // set up the fonts
    fntTitle=new Font("Helvetica", Font.BOLD, 25);
    fntMain=new Font("Helvetica", Font.BOLD, 20);
    fntControl=new Font("Helvetica", Font.BOLD, 15);
    fntNotes=new Font("Helvetica", Font.BOLD, 16);
    // set the BufferedImage object to null;
    eSay=null;
    try
      // load the image from disk into a BufferedImage object
      eSay=ImageIO.read(new File("h:\\My documents\\ICS4M1\\Login\\eSay.jpg"));
      // set up the screen
      this.name=name;
      this.option=1;
      setScreen(name);
    catch (IOException e)
      // message if file not found
      System.out.println("Image not found");
public void setScreen(String name)
    jf= new FrameBase(name);
    // set up the screen
    Container contentPane=jf.getContentPane();
    contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    // set up the graphic
    pnlGraphic=new JPanel();
    pnlGraphic.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    // load the BufferedImage into the ImageLabel
    ImageLabel il=new ImageLabel(eSay,"");
    // load the ImageLabel onto the panel
    pnlGraphic.add("Center",il);
    // set up the title section
    lblTitle=new JLabel("Welcome to eSay",0);
    lblTitle.setFont(fntTitle);
    lblMessage=new JLabel("Enter user name and password and click on Login or click on New User to set up a new account",0);
    lblMessage.setFont(fntControl);
    // set up the panel for the title area
    pnlTitle=new JPanel();
    pnlTitle.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,1));
    pnlTitle.add(lblTitle);
    pnlTitle.add(lblMessage);
    // set up the input section of the screen
    lblUser=new JLabel("User: ");
    lblUser.setFont(fntMain);
    lblPassword=new JLabel("Password: ");
    lblPassword.setFont(fntMain);
    lblCheck=new JLabel("Re-Type Password: ");
    lblCheck.setFont(fntMain);
    lblCheck.setEnabled(false);
    lblNotes=new JLabel("<html><font color=\"red\">User name 6 to 10 alphanumeric characters, password 5 to 8 alphanumeric characters, </font></html>",0);
    lblNotes.setFont(fntNotes);
    txtUser=new JTextField(20);
    txtUser.setFont(fntMain);
    txtPassword=new JTextField(20);
    txtPassword.setFont(fntMain);
    txtCheck=new JTextField(20);
    txtCheck.setFont(fntMain);
    txtCheck.setEnabled(false);
    btnLogin=new JButton("Login");
    btnLogin.setFont(fntMain);
    btnNewUser=new JButton("New User");
    btnNewUser.setFont(fntMain);
    // make the button active
    btnLogin.addActionListener(this);
    btnNewUser.addActionListener(this);
    // assemble the input section panel
    pnlMain=new JPanel();
    pnlMain.setLayout(new GridLayout(5,2));
    pnlMain.add(lblUser);
    pnlMain.add(txtUser);
    pnlMain.add(lblPassword);
    pnlMain.add(txtPassword);
    pnlMain.add(btnNewUser);
    pnlMain.add(btnLogin);
    pnlMain.add(lblCheck);
    pnlMain.add(txtCheck);
    // add the panels to the screen
    contentPane.add(pnlTitle,"North");
    contentPane.add(pnlGraphic,"Center");
    contentPane.add(pnlMain,"East");
    contentPane.add(lblNotes,"South");
    // set up and show the frame
    jf.setSize(900,400);
    jf.show();
} // end of setScreen()
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    if (e.getSource()==btnNewUser)
      if (option==1)
        lblCheck.setEnabled(true);
        txtCheck.setEnabled(true);
        lblMessage.setText("Create a login name and password, enter the password twice as indicated");
        btnLogin.setEnabled(false);
        option=2;
      else if (option==2)
        String tempUser=txtUser.getText();
        String tempPassword=txtPassword.getText();
        String tempCheck=txtCheck.getText();
        if (tempPassword.equals(tempCheck))
          ValidateUser vu=new ValidateUser(tempUser,tempPassword);
          if (vu.getEncryptedPassword()==null)
            lblMessage.setText("Please check guidelines for user name and password and re-enter");
          else
            lblMessage.setText("Login created - Welcome to eSay!");
        else
          lblMessage.setText("Passwords do not match, please re-enter login and password twice");
    else if (e.getSource()==btnLogin)
} // actionPerformed
public static void main(String args[])
    Login l=new Login("eSay Message Board");
} // end class Login            User class
public class User
private String userName;
private String password;
private int numberLogins;
public User(String userName, String password)
    this.userName=userName;
    this.password=password;
    this.numberLogins=0;
// gets for surname, first name and number of logins
public String getUserName()
    return userName;
public int getNumberLogins()
    return numberLogins;
public void resetLogins()
    this.numberLogins=0;
public void login()
    this.numberLogins++;
public static void main(String args [])
       // enter test statements here
} // end of User classValidate User(validation)
          System.out.println ("A character is invalid");
          return false;
    return true;
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    public void encryptPassword()
    // standard get for encrypted password
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      return encryptedPassword;
}PasswordService(One way hash conversion)
package org.myorg.services;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import org.myorg.SystemUnavailableException;
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;
import sun.misc.CharacterEncoder;
public final class PasswordService
private static PasswordService instance;
private PasswordService()
public synchronized String encrypt(String plaintext) throws SystemUnavailableException
    MessageDigest md = null;
    try
      md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
    catch(NoSuchAlgorithmException e)
      throw new SystemUnavailableException(e.getMessage());
    try
      md.update(plaintext.getBytes("UTF-8"));
    catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e)
      throw new SystemUnavailableException(e.getMessage());
    byte raw[] = md.digest();
    String hash = (new BASE64Encoder()).encode(raw);
    return hash;
public static synchronized PasswordService getInstance()
    if(instance == null)
      return new PasswordService();
    else
      return instance;
}

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Help with RSA Encryption using SATSA

Hello,
I am a new to writing code on J2ME . I am trying to encrypt data using
RSA public key on J2ME using SATSA.
I generated the public key using openssl in the PEM format and stored the
key (mypublickey) as a Base64 decoded byte array in my code.
Next, I did the following:
X509EncodedKeySpec test - new X509EncodedKeySpec(mypublickey);
KeyFactory kf = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
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I used this key to encrypt as follows:
cipher c = Cipher.getInstance("RSA");
c.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
c.doFinal(data,0,data.length,ciphertext,0);
where byte[] data = "1234567890".getBytes();
I get no errors during this process.
Now, when I try to decrypt the string, I get a padding error as follows:
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I tried getting an instance of the cipher with RSA/ECB/NoPadding and this time the decrypt gives junk.
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public class test2 {
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          byte [] data = "012345678901234567890123456789ab".getBytes();
          Base64 base64 = new Base64();
/*public key generated by
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          byte [] ciphertext = new byte[128];
          X509EncodedKeySpec test = new X509EncodedKeySpec(mypublickey);
          byte [] myprivatekey = base64.decode("privatekey in pkcs8format");
KeyFactory rsakeyfac = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA");
          PublicKey pubkey = rsakeyfac.generatePublic(test);
          Cipher c1 = Cipher.getInstance("RSA");
          c1.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, pubkey);
          c1.doFinal(data, 0,data.length, ciphertext);
          PKCS8EncodedKeySpec pks2 = new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(myprivatekey);
          RSAPrivateCrtKey privkey = (RSAPrivateCrtKey)rsakeyfac.generatePrivate(pks2);
          Cipher c2 = Cipher.getInstance("RSA");
          c2.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, privkey);
          byte [] decrypteddata = c2.doFinal(ciphertext);
          System.out.println("Decrypted String is:"+new String(decrypteddata).trim());
Error that I get is:
Exception in thread "main" javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Data must start with zero
     at sun.security.rsa.RSAPadding.unpadV15(Unknown Source)
     at sun.security.rsa.RSAPadding.unpad(Unknown Source)
     at com.sun.crypto.provider.RSACipher.a(DashoA13*..)
     at com.sun.crypto.provider.RSACipher.engineDoFinal(DashoA13*..)
     at javax.crypto.Cipher.doFinal(DashoA13*..)

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I'm making a Cipher for personal use and possible publish as freeware. Can someone help me figure out what I'm missing in my code and/or post possible fixes? Thanks!
P.S. If this code looks ametuer, it's because it is. I'm just a freshman in college :)
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import java.util.*;
import javax.crypto.*;
import javax.crypto.spec.*;
import java.security.*;
public class EncryptionModule {
static final int keylength = 42;
private SecretKeySpec skeySpec;
public EncryptionModule(String key)
skeySpec = makeKey(key);
public SecretKeySpec makeKey(String keys)
SecretKeySpec skeySpec = null;
try {
byte [] keys_raw = keys.getBytes();
skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(keys_raw, "Blowfish");
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return skeySpec;
public String EncryptionModule(String line)
byte[] encrypted = new byte[0];
try {
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("Blowfish");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, skeySpec);
encrypted = cipher.doFinal(line.getBytes());
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return new String(encrypted);
public String Decrypt(String line)
byte[] decrypted = new byte[0];
try {
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("Blowfish");
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE,skeySpec);
decrypted = cipher.doFinal(line.getBytes());
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return new String(decrypted);
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import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
public class FileIO
BufferedReader inputFile;
String inputFileName;
BufferedWriter outputFile;
String outputFileName;
ArrayList dataList;
ArrayList breakLine;
EncryptionModule EncryptionModuleor;
* Constructor for objects of class IO.
public FileIO(String key)
dataList = new ArrayList();
breakLine = new ArrayList();
EncryptionModuleor = new EncryptionModule(key);
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dataList = new ArrayList();
breakLine = new ArrayList();
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public boolean setInputFile() throws IOException
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if (inputFileName==null){
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outputFileName = myDB.getFile();
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return fileOpened;
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You dont say what the problem is so one has to guess!
1) " return new String(encrypted);"
It is not realy safe to convert bytes to String this way. This must be close to the number 1 problem seen in this forum. Use something like Base64 or HEX encoding.
2) Don't just catch exceptions and print out stack traces!
If you intend to publish the encrytpion class then define an exception class specific to this problem (maybe more than one) and convert internal exceptions that you can't handle to this exception.
3) You ave not defined a mode or padding and are relying on the default. Make it explicit so there is no argument as to what mode and padding is being used.
4) For some reason you are breaking a file into lines and then encrypting each line. Why not just encrypt the whole file as bytes. Much easier, quicker, less code.
5) Rather than use a GUI to select the file why not make them command line parameters using the standard UNIX/DOS approach.

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Set "SSID Broadcast" to "enabled". This will help your computer find and lock on to your router's signal.
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Im new to this and need help with putting a password on my wireless

I've had my linksys router for a few years now and recently have been asked to secure it so no one else in the neighborhood can connect to it but me but Ive never known how and I cannot find the installation CD for it. I have a model number# WRT54G. I tried searchin the forums but couldn't seem to find one I could understand. If anyone could please offer me some help on how to simply put a password on it so just my computer and the others in the house can access the wifi thatd be great. Thanks

To set up wireless security, you must use a computer that is wired to the router.
Where to find the router settings: The router's login password is usually on one of the "Administration" pages. The other settings are all found in the "Wireless" or "Wireless Security" section of the router's setup pages, located at 192.168.1.1
First, give your router a unique SSID. Don't use "linksys".
Make sure "SSID Broadcast" is set to "enabled".
Next, leave the router at its default settings (except for the unique SSID), and then use your pc to connect wirelessly to the router. Test your wireless Internet connection and make sure it is working correctly. You must have a properly working wireless connection before setting up wireless security.
To implement wireless security, you need to do one step at a time, then verify that you can still connect your wireless computer to the router.
Next, encrypt your wireless system using the highest level of encryption that all of your wireless devices will support. Common encryption methods are:
WEP - poor (see note below)
WPA (sometimes called PSK, or WPA with TKIP) - good
WPA2 (sometimes called PSK2, or WPA with AES) - best
WPA and WPA2 sometimes come in versions of "personal" and "enterprise". Most home users should use "personal". Also, if you have a choice between AES and TKIP, and your wireless equipment is capable of both, choose AES. With any encryption method, you will need to supply a key (sometimes called a "password" ).
The wireless devices (computers, printers, etc.) that you have will need to be set up with the SSID, encryption method, and key that matches what you entered in the router.
Retest your system and verify that your wireless Internet connection is still working correctly.
And don't forget to give your router a new login password.
Picking Passwords (keys): You should never use a dictionary word as a password. If you use a dictionary word as a password, even WPA2 can be cracked in a few minutes. When you pick your login password and encryption key (or password or passphrase) you should use a random combination of capital letters, small letters, and numbers, but no spaces. A login password, should be 12 characters or more. WPA and WPA2 passwords should be at least 24 characters. Note: Your key, password, or passphrase must not have any spaces in it.
Most home users should have their routers set so that "remote management" of the router is disabled. If you must have this option enabled, then your login password must be increased to a minumum of 24 random characters.
One additional issue is that Windows XP requires a patch to run WPA2. The patch is located in SP3, so you will need SP3 to run WPA2.
Note:
WEP is no longer recommended. The FBI has demonstrated that WEP can be cracked in just a few minutes using software tools that are readily available over the Internet. Even a long random character password will not protect you with WEP. You should be using WPA or preferably WPA2 encryption.

Win 7 dual boot with SafeBoot encryption halfway there!

EDIT: Sorry for changing the title. It used to be Need those knowledgeable with Windows (esp. 7) for dual boot input, but I had some success and didn't want to start a whole new post. See the last comment for the update!
Hi,
Disclaimer: please don't feel compelled to issue warnings regarding doing this on a work computer. I'm aware of the risks, have talked about what I do on my computer (such as wiping it and installing Linux only over my Win issued encrypted system) with a higher-up in IT that I know well, and I have spoken with IT reps about my running Linux. They don't care; they just don't support it or help. I even have an online community for Linux users at work. I'm searching for a work-around that will allow me dual boot while fully maintaining the protection my company seeks by issuing encrypted systems (i.e. replacing a proprietary encryption tool with an open source one).
I'm in a tricky situation. At work I'm issued a computer with SafeBoot, a full-disk encryption tool. On my last computer, I simply installed Arch over everything because dual booting was not possible. I really need Windows, but since I had a desktop as well for CAD usage, I used that for Win and just had Linux on the laptop. My lease just came up and I was issued a new laptop for the next three years. In addition, they upgraded the laptop so I can run CAD from it and they'll be taking my Windows desktop.
So... I'm on a mission to try to find a dual boot solution. I used to run Linux from a flash drive, but sharing data was impossible since I still can't even mount the Win partition and the flash drive isn't big enough to hold anything useful besides the OS itself (8gb). Here's my hope forward:
- Make a bootable clone of Win 7 while it's running with the hope that it's not encrypted
- Test it quite repeatedly to make sure I can boot from it
- Wipe the drive and create a partition for Win and one for Arch
- Use TrueCrypt (or some other cross-platform encryption system) for Win 7
- Restore Win 7 from my bootable clone back onto the encrypted partition on the laptop HD
- Install Arch with LUKS/dm-crypt
- Be extremely happy and celebrate.
Does anyone know if the first steps in particular are feasible? I have used Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac and it can make a bootable clone while the system is running. It's actually quite awesome because you have an incremental backup solution that youc an also boot from in a pinch in case you need to do something to your HD that can't be done when it's mounted. Much faster than booting from the OS X install disk.
I've been looking for an equivalent on Win and not happy so far. Macrium sounded promising, but when running it, it seems to want to backup to some kind of image file, not simply do a file copy of everything on the drive. Perhaps this will work... I'm just not sure. I also looked at DriveImageXML, but am not sure about that either. I'm using the built-in Win backup tool right now and will see if that works.
Does anyone know of a tool that will do this? CloneZilla or any Linux tool will not work because a literal clone (like dd) made while the computer is off is worthless. I need a decrypted backup.
Lastly, any other general input? Does this seem feasible?
Thanks!
Last edited by jwhendy (2011-04-15 22:02:07)

Wow! I can't believe this is working. The rough gist of it is that I think I've found a method that won't require virtualization or fiddling with SafeBoot or having to jump through hoops to either clone while running (to have a decrypted clone), or try to do something like THIS (this is terrifying, since it involves making a clone with dd while it's encrypted and then restoring the SafeBoot encrypted mbr somewhere else later). The gist is like so:
- Use Win7 built in partition editor to shrink it down as far as possible. For me, this was down to about 130G (out of ~230G)
- Use same tool to creat two additional partitions: one for Arch and one for TrueCrypt
- Used Partition Wizard Home Edition to change the type to 0x83 (very necessary)
- Reboot, install Arch to /dev/sda2
- Install grub to /dev/sda2, not to the MBR!
- Reboot into Windows and used EasyBCD to add an archLinux entry to the Win7 boot options
- Rebooted and tried it out!
- I'm logged into Arch right now!
This is actually quite incredible. I think this is about the best I could have asked for. I get to avoid any issues with replacing SafeBoot with something else (even though I'm not sure my IT group really cares [1]), I get a dedicated Linux install, which runs much better and cleaner than virtualizing, and I can share all my stuff via the TrueCrypt partition [2].
I'll keep everyone posted and will probably end up adding this to the wiki. I think this is a win-win situation. [3]
Footnotes:
[1] For example, users are permitted to use their personal Macs at work... but they're not encrypted. People just bring them in and use them. They're obviously not protected, so why would IT care if my computer is encrypted with TrueCrypt vs. SafeBoot when they let people run around with no encryption? Not to mention, as said above, I've talked about my doings with an IT higher-up and he's never said anything of caution about not having encryption -- just suggested I routinely run ClamAV. I did get some strong words of caution on SuperUser. I guess everyone can be happy this way.
[2] I have yet to set this up, but think it will be far easier than what I just went through!
[3] The only thing I'm bummed about is that Win7 couldn't be resized any smaller because of unmovable safeboot related files during defrag. It's only using 30G of space right now, but wouldn't shrink below 129G. It doesn't really matter -- I have 30G for Linux and about 80G for my storage. My storage isn't more than 11G for all my work documents right now, so I don't really anticipate blowing through another 70G anytime soon.

File to SOAP (Synchronous) with certificates Encryption and Descryption

Hi,
Can anybody advice me how can I develop the scenario file to SOAP (Synchronous Process) with certificates encryption and descryption.
Thanks,
Naidu.

For file to soap sync scenario without using BPM, you need to use the following adapter modules.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/45/20c210c20a0732e10000000a155369/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/45/20cc5dc2180733e10000000a155369/content.htm
For applying certificates, you need to configure SSL on java stack.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/197e6aec-0701-0010-4cbe-ad5ff6703c16
Regards,
Prateek

MacBook Pro now works with wireless encryption

I am offering my two cents. After spending a morning on the phone with TDS and part of the afternoon with apple yesterday, today I finally have my MacBook Pro talking wireless with an encryption key.
My MBP would connect without an encryption key but would not with an encrytion key. The MBP is 2.16GHz model, with 10.4.9 plus all updates; the GW is an Actiontec GT704-WG.
My original encryption key which did not work was 128bit key 112233445566778899aabbccdd. When this key was in the router and entered onto the MBP it would not connect.
When I changed to 64bit encryption and entered an ASCII ABCDE on the router, then on the MBP entered a 64bit key of 4142434445 (the equivalent hexcodes), everything connected.
I have not tried this method with a 128 bit encryption key.
I hope this helps those who can connect without encryption but not with encryption.
Bruce Kaiser

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Need help with setting up a PPTP connection

Hello all,
I am having trouble setting up a PPTP connection in Mac OS X "Snow Leopard". The ISP has provided the following info:
— Protocol: PPTP
— Login
— Password
— IP Address
— Subnet mask
— Default Gateway
— IP Address of the VPN Server
I am using the Airport Express as rounter, so here's what I entered in the Airport Utility on the Internet tab:
Connection: Ethernet
IP Address (as provided)
Subnet mask (as provided)
Router address (from Default Gateway)
Then I went to Connections, and created a new PPTP connection, setting the properties of the latter as follows:
VPN Server (as provided)
Account name (from Login)
Authenrification->Password (from Password)
and chose "Send all traffic over VPN connection".
The Airport is reported to have connected successfully, but the specified VPN Serverd does not ping, and when I try to connect via PPTP, an error is displayed saying that the PPTP-VPN server did not respond. Playing with different Encryption types did not help.
This same connection, when set up on a Windows machine, works well so I think I must have goofed with the Mac OS X settings. Could you help me find out what I could have done wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Anton

Pete Corelio:
{quote}You do have more network devices, at least a dsl or cable modem and maybe a switch connected to it. Are your PC and the AX connected to the same modem/switch?{quote}
No. There's only the Ethernet cable leading to some central (building-wide, or even wider) device. It was routed to my friend's apartment by the ISP people.
{quote}It's a bit uncommon to manually set the IP address within the TCP/IP section of the VPN network settings like you did. That's usually set to automatically get an IP via PPP... Please try a quick test using PPP instead.{quote}
Having the AX using DHCP and VPN using PPP makes part of the ISP settings unnecessary... Hmmm. Anyway, I did try PPP in VPN connection settings, to no avail. Alas.
{quote}It's also suspicious that you cannot open a connection to port 1723 with the telnet command. Are you sure the VPN type is PPTP and not LT2P over ipsec?{quote}
Yes, I am sure. The ISP's support confirmed it over the phone. Also they said they hadn't been able to set up any Mac with their network, but I am loth to believe the latter statement. And I clearly remember it was PPTP (not LT2P) in the Windows settings.
{quote}lease verify the IP settings on your PC...{quote}
OK, will do this Wednesday. Also I'll take a closer look at the VPN settings.
{quote}So your PC is on the same network and the VPN works from there? Is the PC using 3rd party VPN software or the built-in software?{quote}
No other clients, just a VPN connection configured using Windows built-in tools.
Anton
EDIT:
{quote}'m assuming the Mac gets an IP in the 10.x range and gets online OK right? {quote}
The AX is saying it's connected but there's no internet. This ISP is providing access to the internet through that VPN. The same AX works well with my MacBook at home, although I am using PPPoE.
Message was edited by: Ant_222

Help With WRT110

Hi everyone i have a WRT110 and im new to wireless. i went through the whole installation. My router is installed onto my computer and im able to to go on the internet only if my laptop is connected to it with the blue wire. I tried everything to enable my wireless and no matter what i did nothing worked. Can someone tell me step by step what i had to do?

Hello Teek, I don't know if somebody already answer your help with WRT110 thread. I posted today a problem in it, but kept looking for answers in this forum. Finally I found one by user Mort. I hope this will help you resolve your problems such as it did for me.
Regards, Angela
Yes, you can go wireless, for that you have to adjust the wireless settings on your router and you should have a wireless adapter/card... Please access the setup page of the router by launching an Internet
Explorer and type on the address bar, 192.168.1.1 and press enter. When
it prompts for the username and password, leave the username field
empty and provide password as admin all in lower cases and then
click on ok. Click on the Wireless tab and click Manual set up
- Here Wireless Network mode should be mixed
- Provide any name in the Wireless Network Name (SSID) box, all in
lower cases without any spaces in between.
- Set wireless channel to 11
- And wireless SSID broadcast should be Enabled and then click on save
settings.
Please make a note of Wireless Network Name (SSID) as this is the
Network Identifier.
For Wireless Security : -
Now Click on the Sub tab under Wireless > Wireless Security.
Change the Wireless security mode to WEP
Encryption should be 64 bits.
Leave the Pass phrase blank, don't type in anything.
And under WEP Key 1 type in any 10 numbers please.
Click on save settings.
Please make a note of WEP Key 1 as this is the Security Key for the
Wireless Network.
Now try to look for the Wireless Network(SSID) on your laptop and try to connect...
I may add that after you try and connect remember then to set your laptop settings to be the same you enter when configurating the router. Angela

Key Lenght too short error with dbms_crypto.encrypt

Hi Friends,
I am getting above mentioned error with dbms_crypto.encrypt.
I had created a thread in technology --> security forum but i am not getting any help from there.
ORA-28234 Key Length too short with dbms_crypto.encrypt
Appreciate if anyone help me resolve this issue.
Thanks
AT

Hi Warren,
Yes function is compiled without any compilation error.
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AT

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