Broadcom API Gateway - node.properties password encryption

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

Question: what algorithm is used to encrypt the password's value for the following entities stored inside the /opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default/etc/conf/node.properties file?

node.db.config.main.pass 
node.cluster.pass 

 

Environment

Release: 10.x -11.x

Resolution

Password values for node.db.config.main.pass (database user password) and node.cluster.pass (cluster passphrase) are encrypted using the AES-256 algorithm.