Protecting data

Use CCA to protect sensitive data stored on your system, sent between systems, or stored off your system on magnetic tape.

To protect data, encipher it under a key. When you want to read the data, decipher it from ciphertext to plaintext form.

CCA provides Encipher and Decipher verbs to perform these functions. If you use a key to encipher data, you must use the same key to decipher the data. The Encipher and Decipher verbs use encrypted keys as input. You can also use clear keys, indirectly, by first using the Clear Key Import verb and then using the Encipher and Decipher verbs.