Infor OS - ION – Decryption using PGP

I’ve been exploring file decryption using Infor OS for a project during the weekend. ?Most of the required information are available in Infor OS admin guides and user guides but it’s scattered in different places. So thought of bringing everything together so that anyone can use it easily.

Infor OS used PGP (Pretty good privacy) that enables users to communicate securely by decrypting and encrypting messages, authenticating messages through digital signatures and encrypting files.

Let’s look at the steps. We can do the whole process in three simple steps

1.)??? Generate the key pair and send to third party.

2.)??? Prepare the connection point to decrypt files

3.)??? Create the file template and required data flow to receive the file

Step 1:? Generate the key pair

??????????????Go to ION -> Configurations -> ION Service -> Key Management (tab)

Click the + sign and generate a key. You can either set an expiration date or keep it as non-expiry.

??????????????After you create the entry, right click and export the key. ??

You will get a .asc file and this is the public key. You can send this to the third party, and they will use this public key to encrypt the file(s). ?

Step 2: Prepare the connection point to decrypt files

In your connection point, tick ‘Decrypt files after read’

That’s all. Now you are ready to receive the encrypted file :)

What we need to do now is build a data flow to receive the file.

Step 3: Create the file template and required data flow to receive the file

First let’s create the file template generate the BOD.

Next let’s build a simple data flow, that will accept the decrypted file, encrypt and place it in a folder.

We also need a simple XSLT map to generate the sync BOD from process BOD.

Let’s activate the data flow and see how easy to do the encryption :)

Encrypted file:

Decrypted file in OneView

Sources: Infor OS Admin guide, Infor OS user guide

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