Cryptography

Data Encryption
Ciphers and Message Digests
Key Exchange
Digital Signatures
Digital Certificates
Public Key Infrastructure
Key Generation and Support
Tape, CD, and DVD Encryption
Application, File, and Database Encryption
FIPS 140-2 Validation

Cryptography is the basic technique of securing information through mathematical transformation. Cryptography supports many of the other general security services on a system including authentication, data privacy, and data integrity. The MCP environment supports a host of encryption techniques, ciphers, message digests, digital signatures, and pseudo-random number generation.

This section covers the following cryptographic techniques supported in the MCP environment:

  • Data encryption

  • Ciphers and message digests

  • Key exchange

  • Digital signatures

  • Public key infrastructure (PKI)

  • Key generation and support

  • Tape, CD, and DVD encryption

  • XML encryption

  • Wrapped File encryption

  • Database encryption

  • Disk encryption

This section describes the products of the MCP environment that use these cryptographic methods.

Note: In order to use Cryptography services on the ClearPath MCP environment, MCP Cryptography Services (also known as SECURE-TRANSPORT) must be present and running. This software is export-controlled and must be ordered separately.
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