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> # Attribute Encryption Tag of Suffix Configuration

> This tab displays and controls attribute value encryption in the corresponding suffix.

> Encrypted attributes. This table displays the names of attributes whose values are encrypted in this suffix. For each encrypted attribute, the right hand column displays the encryption scheme and allows you to modify it. The following encryption schemes are available:

> - DES (Data Encryption Standard)

> - Triple DES

> - RC4

> - RC2

> Add attribute. Click this button to select a new attribute for encryption. Choose one or more of the attribute names in the pop-up dialog and click OK. The new attribute names will appear in the encrypted attributes table with DES as the default encryption scheme.

> Delete attribute. Select the attribute in the table for which you no longer wish the values to be encrypted, then click this button.

> Save. When you have defined or modified a set of encrypted attributes, you need to reinitialize the suffix. Click this button to save your changes and follow the pop-up dialogs to perform the reinitialization if you wish to do so at this time:

> - Confirmation Required Dialog. If your suffix already contains data that you wish to encrypt now, click on Export Suffix to create an LDIF file of the entire suffix contents. If you already have an LDIF file that you will use to initialize the suffix, click Continue.

> - Warning Dialog. Here you are prompted to initialize the suffix now from an LDIF file, possibly the one created in the previous step. Initializing the suffix will encrypt the designated attributes. If you close this dialog without initializing the suffix, you must perform an initialization before accessing data in the suffix.

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