Encryption Functions

RE: Encryption Functions

Appian AppMarket — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:00:00 GMT

v1.1.1 Release Notes

Support for high volume encryption use cases. This version includes a (1 minute) cache for encryption key retrieval

RE: Encryption Functions

Appian AppMarket — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:34:09 GMT

v1.1.0 Release Notes

Support for high volume encryption use cases. This version includes a (1 minute) cache for encryption key retrieval

RE: Encryption Functions

erickp0002 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:12:40 GMT

Do you know how can I tell if a string is encrypted or not? For example, if I encrypt a text and want to display the actual value, I need to decrypt it. But if the text was not encrypted before and I use the decrypt function, it will throw an error. So we need: if encrypted, then use decrypt function else just display the value. How can we do this?

RE: Encryption Functions

Patricia — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:43:11 GMT

Hi,

I created a rule to encrypt/decrypt values using this plug-in and for both functions I use the same key defined in the Third party credential.

I first encrypt the value and store it in DB and then retrieve it in a process and decrypt the value. When trying to decrypt the encrypted value in the process I get the following error:

Expression evaluation error at function fn!decryptvalue [line 11]: Could not decrypt item of type javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 16 when decrypting with padded cipher. Item prepared for server was not encrypted: {1}.

Has anyone face this issue before or has any idea on how to solve it?

Thanks in advance

RE: Encryption Functions

sirigireddyr9955 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:42:30 GMT

HI ,

Is there any document on how to configure field name, key and value in third part credentials?

how to generate value ,is it automatically generated one ?

In The expresseion: encryptvalue(valueToEncrypt:local!phoneNumber,
externalSystemKey:"encryptdecryptkey",
scsFieldKey:"key"

), what is mean by externalsystemkey and scsfieldkey

RE: Encryption Functions

Sebastián — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:03:23 GMT

Hello, I have encrypted a field in the appian storage tables with AES_ENCRYPT and I have stored it by transforming it to HEX to leave it as text, but I want to create a rule that allows me to decrypt that field using the decryptvalue function, but I cannot make them compatible The encryption ones, do you know of any way that the encryption in MySQL and Appian with the functions are compatible?

RE: Encryption Functions

Riyaz Shaik — Wed, 10 May 2023 16:02:23 GMT

Hello - Can I know what version a JUnit we can use to run the unit tests in the Encryption Functions plugin?

Also, what version of JDK used to develop?

I'm getting the following error trying to run the testEncryptedValueCanBeDecrypted test

internal Error occurred.
org.junit.platform.commons.JUnitException: TestEngine with ID 'junit-jupiter' failed to discover tests
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.discoverEngineRoot(EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.java:160)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.discoverSafely(EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.java:132)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.discover(EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.java:107)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.discover(EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.java:78)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.DefaultLauncher.discover(DefaultLauncher.java:110)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.DefaultLauncher.execute(DefaultLauncher.java:86)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.DefaultLauncherSession$DelegatingLauncher.execute(DefaultLauncherSession.java:86)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.SessionPerRequestLauncher.execute(SessionPerRequestLauncher.java:53)
    at com.intellij.junit5.JUnit5IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit5IdeaTestRunner.java:71)
    at com.intellij.rt.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:33)
    at com.intellij.rt.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:221)
    at com.intellij.rt.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:54)
Caused by: org.junit.platform.commons.JUnitException: MethodSelector [className = 'com.appiansolutionengineering.encryption.test.EncryptTextTest', methodName = 'testEncryptedValueCanBeDecrypted', methodParameterTypes = ''] resolution failed
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.listeners.discovery.AbortOnFailureLauncherDiscoveryListener.selectorProcessed(AbortOnFailureLauncherDiscoveryListener.java:39)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.resolveCompletely(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.java:103)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.run(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.java:83)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolver.resolve(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolver.java:113)
    at org.junit.jupiter.engine.discovery.DiscoverySelectorResolver.resolveSelectors(DiscoverySelectorResolver.java:46)
    at org.junit.jupiter.engine.JupiterTestEngine.discover(JupiterTestEngine.java:69)
    at org.junit.platform.launcher.core.EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.discoverEngineRoot(EngineDiscoveryOrchestrator.java:152)
    ... 11 more
Caused by: org.junit.platform.commons.PreconditionViolationException: Could not load class with name: com.appiansolutionengineering.encryption.test.EncryptTextTest
    at org.junit.platform.engine.discovery.MethodSelector.lambda$lazyLoadJavaClass$0(MethodSelector.java:157)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.function.Try$Failure.getOrThrow(Try.java:335)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.discovery.MethodSelector.lazyLoadJavaClass(MethodSelector.java:156)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.discovery.MethodSelector.getJavaClass(MethodSelector.java:135)
    at org.junit.jupiter.engine.discovery.MethodSelectorResolver.resolve(MethodSelectorResolver.java:75)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.lambda$resolve$2(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.java:150)
    at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:193)
    at java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.tryAdvance(ArrayList.java:1361)
    at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEachWithCancel(ReferencePipeline.java:126)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyIntoWithCancel(AbstractPipeline.java:499)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:486)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:472)
    at java.util.stream.FindOps$FindOp.evaluateSequential(FindOps.java:152)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234)
    at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.findFirst(ReferencePipeline.java:464)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.resolve(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.java:189)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.resolve(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.java:126)
    at org.junit.platform.engine.support.discovery.EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.resolveCompletely(EngineDiscoveryRequestResolution.java:92)
    ... 16 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.appiansolutionengineering.encryption.test.EncryptTextTest
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:387)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:355)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.util.ReflectionUtils.lambda$tryToLoadClass$9(ReflectionUtils.java:831)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.function.Try.lambda$call$0(Try.java:57)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.function.Try.of(Try.java:93)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.function.Try.call(Try.java:57)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.util.ReflectionUtils.tryToLoadClass(ReflectionUtils.java:794)
    at org.junit.platform.commons.util.ReflectionUtils.tryToLoadClass(ReflectionUtils.java:750)
    ... 32 more

RE: Encryption Functions

Gavin Hume — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:32:57 GMT

I know the description above states that this plug-in supports encryption/decryption of plain text data but is there any reason why it would not work on other data types? In particular I'm thinking of date fields, e.g. used for Date Of Birth (I assume the encrypted value would have to be stored as text anyway). Or would you need to convert the date field to text before passing it to the encryptvalue() function?

RE: Encryption Functions

Ibra K. — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:26:15 GMT

Is there any way to check whether text is already encrypted or not?

RE: Encryption Functions

sunilkumarv25791 — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 20:45:31 GMT

Hi,

i am trying to add a validation inside the a!encryptedTextField(), is there a way to add validations?

there is no parameter for "validation".

if you suggest that will be helpful.

a!localVariables(
local!accountNumber,
{
a!encryptedTextField(
label: "Bank Account Number:",
labelPosition: "ABOVE",
value: local!accountNumber,
saveInto: local!accountNumber,
refreshAfter: "UNFOCUS",
required: true,

),
}
)

RE: Encryption Functions

Maciej Borkowski — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:12:54 GMT

Dear Community,

I am doing a little test of the Encryption Functions plugin.

My ultimate target is to encrypt certain text, save it to the database, and be able to decrypt it back on the user interfaces.

To test the functionality I did a small test. First box is saving encrypted text to the rule input, and second box is decrypting it and show.
Unfortunately, instead receiving the string 'Test', I am receiving another string of characters to what was saved into the rule input.

What am I doing wrong ?

Thank you very much in advance for your help,

Best Regards,
Maciej

RE: Encryption Functions

Richard Michaelis — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:05:02 GMT

We are moving from "on premise" to "cloud". We are told, that appian doesn't support this plugin in cloud.

Can anybody have suggestions here what the alternatives are?

RE: Encryption Functions

ganeshbabuj — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:11:33 GMT

I had installed the plugin and created a key on "Third party credentials page". while using the rule getting below error on Appian 20.1

load(

local!str:"hai",
local!EncryptStr: encryptvalue(local!Str),
local!EncryptStr
)

Expression evaluation error at function 'encryptvalue' [line 4]: This plug-in [com.appiansolutionengineering.encryption] is not registered to access secured values for the given external system key [encryptdecryptkey]. Check the external system’s plug-ins list in the Administration Console.

RE: Encryption Functions

tanmayar — Fri, 01 May 2020 16:54:20 GMT

Hi Jussi,

We are trying to use your plug in for AES 256 bit encryption. Our use case is such that Appian encrypts a value and shares it with external system, and the external system decrypts the value and persists in their data base.

We noticed that every time we encrypt a value like let's say "123" with the same encryption key the encrypted value keeps changing. Is that normal because the external system is unable to decrypt it? When I am looking online at other encryption/decryption tools, as long as the value we are trying to encrypt and key remain same the encrypted value is also staying constant.

Any help in this matter is much appreciated.

Thank you

RE: Encryption Functions

edmund.loh — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:24:55 GMT

Hi Jussi - Thanks for building and sharing this! A question, when using this to encrypt, the resulting ciphertext always begins with "AAAAE". Is this meant to be like an indicator that ciphertext has been salted?