There are many reasons why you might want to encrypt data. I use a SAS program to encrypt a list of logon names and passwords. Before we get started describing how to encrypt data, let’s discuss some basic concepts concerning encrypting and decrypting data. All computer data is stored as […]
Encrypting Data Using SAS was published on SAS Users.
I recently installed a local copy of SAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) in our Kubernetes lab environment and was trying to configure it to work with a test AD server, Windows 2012 R2. The AD server had been configured to only allow TLS (LDAPS) connections and so a…
Those of you who use Metacoda Identity Sync may have already heard about Microsoft Security Advisory ADV190023. You may have heard about it from Stuart Rogers’ post on SAS Communities: SAS Viya The Importance of LDAP Encryption. Stuart’s ar…
Sometimes when I am setting up, or helping someone setup, identity synchronisation between the SAS® platform and Microsoft Active Directory (AD), I run into SSL/TLS certificate validation issues. I am usually using Metacoda Identity Sync, but it c…
Sometimes I forget whether I’ve added our internal site root and intermediate CA certificates to the Trusted CA Bundle that SAS® Software applications use. Sometimes I also forget the command I can use to find out whether I did! 😉 As is ofte…