If you want to create a central encryptioncustom field with a centrally encrypted password, select Password with Central Encryption, enter a name it as you wish and associate it to the a screen. This is useful if the following requirements are to be met:
Any user you You want users to get a password or other data from a password field by entering some their user credentials (password to log-in to Jira)
The user doesn’t want to enter any decryption or a specific encryption key
The password should be stored encrypted in the database
Users should not know the encryption /decryption key but the keys can should be stored on at any path in the network reachable for location Jira can connect to
As soon as the user creates a new password it is automatically encrypted with the given private key
As soon as the user enters user credentials to view a password it is automatically decrypted with the given public key
How to add the custom field
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Then adjust the configuration of the field and edit the Central Encryption:
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In the configuration, the admin needs to define folder paths path to the encryption private key (just text fields, no upload input). This should , which has to be a private key file. Furthermore, the adminneeds to define a folder paths path to the decryption public key. This should has to be a public key file. Both should be uploaded to custom field setting. Jira must be able to search for access this pathlocation. Local and remote paths are possible.
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