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| <H1 class="Head">Secure storage preference page</H1> |
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| <p>The <b>Secure Storage</b> preference page is used to manage storage of |
| encrypted information such as passwords. Typically you will have no reason to |
| alter the preferences on this page. The options here are mostly for troubleshooting, |
| and, to a lesser degree, for system administrators and power users.</p> |
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| <h2>Password options</h2> |
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| <p>The <b>Password</b> tab combines functionality related to the master password |
| lifecycle and password providers.</p> |
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| <p>The <b>Clear Passwords</b> button clears cached master passwords from memory. |
| This is analogous to logging out of the secure storage. Note that some password providers obtain |
| credentials from the operating system automatically. To prevent them from doing so, you'll need to log out |
| from the operating system account.</p> |
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| <p>The <b>Master password providers</b> section contains a list of currently available password providers. |
| By default, the enabled provider with the highest priority is used to encrypt data added to secure storage. |
| The priority range is from 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest. A password provider can be disabled it if malfunctions, |
| or if you prefer a lower priority password provider.</p> |
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| <p>Note that data can only be decrypted by the same provider that encrypted the data. |
| This means that changes to the list of the password providers affect only new entries. |
| The password provider for existing entries can only be overwritten by the application storing the data.</p> |
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| <p>By default all password providers are enabled.</p> |
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| <p>Each password provider that has been used at least once will have a master password associated with it. |
| Use the <b>Change Password...</b> button can to change the master password of the selected |
| password provider.</p> |
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| <p>The <b>Recover Password...</b> button opens the password recovery dialog. Use this option if you |
| have forgotten the master password and have configured password recovery questions. |
| The button will be disabled if the password recovery setup was cancelled |
| when the master password was created. Note that the answers for the password recovery questions have to be entered |
| exactly as they were specified during the password recovery setup. Answers are case-sensitive and white space |
| inside answers are significant.</p> |
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| <h2>Contents options</h2> |
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| <p>The <b>Contents</b> tab displays contents of the default secure storage.</p> |
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| <p>Secure storage is organized as a tree where nodes represent context of the information and values are associated |
| with each node. Selecting a node in the tree will display a table of values associated with that node. Values stored in |
| a non-encrypted form will be displayed; the encrypted values will be shown as "*********".</p> |
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| <p>At the bottom of this tab, you will find the actual file location used to persist secure storage data.</p> |
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| <p>To force changes to the contents of secure storage to be saved, click <b>Save</b>.</p> |
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| <p>To delete stored data to recover from an error or to reflect a change in the setup, |
| click <b>Delete</b>. This will delete <b>all</b> of the contents of secure storage. |
| In some cases, other parts of the application may depend on the contents of secure storage that you deleted. |
| To avoid unexpected errors, it is highly recommended to restart the application after secure storage has been deleted.</p> |
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| <h2>Advanced options</h2> |
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| <p>The <b>Advanced</b> tab of the preferences page offers some extra tweaks to secure storage.</p> |
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| <p>The encryption algorithm used by secure storage can be modified from this page. |
| The drop-down list displays the discovered algorithms that are provided by the Java virtual machine |
| which are compatible with secure storage.</p> |
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| <p>Changes in the encryption algorithm are only applied to data stored after the change. If you |
| have already created a secure storage it would have to be deleted and re-created to use the newly selected encryption |
| algorithm.</p> |
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| <p>Note that the list of available algorithm might be different for different Java virtual machines and could |
| be extended by providing custom algorithms using the Java security provider mechanism.</p> |
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| <p><img alt="Related concepts" src="../images/ngrelc.png" border="0"> |
| <br><A href="ref-securestorage-start.htm">Secure storage</A> |
| <br><A href="ref-securestorage-works.htm">How secure storage works</A> |
| <br><A href="ref-securestorage-recovery.htm">Password recovery</A> |
| <br><A href="ref-securestorage-passwd.htm">Life of a master password</A> |
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| <p><img alt="Related reference" src="../images/ngrelr.png" border="0"> |
| <br><a href="ref-securestorage-options.htm">Secure storage runtime options</a> |
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