Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:46:36 -0700
Reply-To: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: Self Analysis
Subject: Re: password protection
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Thanks to Dave and James Handsfield for pointing this out to me.
Once again my "say it ain't so" method of divulging the truth works!
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S David Riba wrote:
>
> > SAS does not provide a native data encryption facility.
>
> Karsten, are you forgetting about (or ignoring) the ENCRYPT option on the
> DATA statement?
>
> SAS datasets can be Read, Write, and Alter protected. However, this does
> not protect the dataset from an external viewer. To remedy this, SAS added
> the ENCRYPT option several releases ago. When it was first presented, the
> theory was that SI was going to add internal encryption capabilities with
> the ENCRYPT option. At a later release, this was going to be enhanced with
> the ability to call external encryption algorithyms. I don't know what
> happened, but this second phase never appeared in a future SAS release.
> However, basic encryption is part of the DATA statement and has been for
> some time now.
>
> Dave
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karsten M. Self <kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
> To: <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 2:41 PM
> Subject: Re: password protection
<snip>
> > SAS does not provide a native data encryption facility. However you
> > could generate a flatfile and encrypt field(s) via Unix utilities, or
> > code your own one-way hash algorithm in SAS. The issue has been
> > discussed several times on SAS-L, though specific methods don't come to
> > mind.
> >
> > --
> > Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
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Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
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