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Delafield Legion seeks camping permit
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City of Delafield - City officials had anticipated canceling the Feb. 27 meeting of the Plan Commission since there was only one item on the agenda, and it did not require immediate action. But they changed their minds when they saw the application for a temporary business permit from the American Legion.
The Legion, 452 N. Lapham Peak Road, is asking for permission to convert its facilities and grounds into a temporary camping site for motorcycles and recreational vehicles during the Harley-Davidson 110th anniversary celebration through Southeastern Wisconsin Aug. 27-Sept. 2.
The temporary campground would be set to accommodate Legion family members and their guests who are participating in the celebration, according to the Legion's permit application.
"This will basically be a private event, as the majority of campers will be national Legion members. The net proceeds from this event will be used for upkeep of our facilities and so will eventually be spent locally," according to the permit application.
According to the application, food and alcohol would be sold only during the Legion's normal business hours and only inside the Legion post. There would be security at the site at all times, and there would be no live music or outside vendors.
City Planner Roger Dupler said that because of the size and scope of the event, there should be a public hearing scheduled before the Plan Commission considered the permit.
The license application calls for about 10 to 15 recreational vehicle sites with limited electricity available. The plan also calls for 50 to 75 camping tent sites with an estimated total of about 100 to 150 campers.
Outdoor bathrooms would be opened and cleaned daily. Potable water and ice would be available to the campers.
There would be no bonfires or camp fires. Quiet times would be enforced from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The Legion hall would be open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. and available as a shelter in case of severe weather.
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1. Re: Missing tables in a full=y expdpMax Seleznev Nov 23, 2012 3:37 PM (in response to 969921)Please list the data for this particular table from DBA/ALL_TABLES and DBA_SEGMENTS.
2. Re: Missing tables in a full=y expdpsb92075 Nov 23, 2012 3:42 PM (in response to 969921)
966918 wrote:which schema owns the "missing" object?
Hello !
There are missing tables in an expdp dump of a database we use in a test environnement.
I don't know why ...
The datafile seems not to be corrupted. The table is listed in a tool like TOAD, and is listed in the catalog view DBA_TABLES.
But the expdp logs doesn't list this table while listing other tables from the same user.
If i try to expdp only a table of these (a missing table in the dumpfile), i get a 39166 Object not found error.
3. Re: Missing tables in a full=y expdpMax Seleznev Nov 23, 2012 3:54 PM (in response to 969921)I see that a similar problem may occur in Oracle 11g due to event 10195 set in the init file ( Zero Row Exported And ORA-39166 During EXPDP [ID 1269422.1] )
It could be worth to check you init parameters and remove that setting if it's there. If the export is successfull then you can change init parameters back to the original state.
Good luck,
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Hotel Onda Verde - Praiano
Just steps away from the beach and cliffs leading down to the shore, Hotel Onda Verde is surrounded by profuse Mediterranean vegetation amidst olive groves, pine trees, oleanders, and bougainvilleas, offering an ideal venue for nature lovers in search of tranquility.
Hotel amenities include complimentary WiFi, a computer station, outdoor seasonal pool, and a sun terrace with spectacular views. An elevator (lift) connects the hotel's parking level to the front desk and all accommodations. Free self parking and long-term parking. Concierge services available. Additional amenities include a spa offering massages with advance reservations, beach facilities, and a charming restaurant serving exquisite regional cuisine. The hotel also boasts an onsite marina, coffee shop/cafe, and nightclub.
Guests are welcome to take advantage of the hotel's airport shuttle with 24-hour advance notice.
Hotel Onda Verde - Praiano
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $160
- Standard Room, Sea View
- Standard Double or Twin Room (Shared Sea View Terrace)
- Deluxe Triple Room, Terrace, Sea View
- Deluxe Double Room, Terrace, Sea View
- Superior Triple Room, Terrace, Sea View
- Superior Quadruple Room, Terrace, Sea View
- Superior Double Room, Balcony, Sea View
Also popular with travelers from the USA
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Hotel size
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- This hotel is arranged over 5 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Airport shuttle service is available on request. Contact the property in advance to make arrangements.
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (6 years old and younger) not allowed March-October
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Train station pickup *
- Free extended parking
- Free nearby parking
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- Free breakfast
- Restaurant
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- Room service (during limited hours)
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach umbrellas
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Outdoor pool
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Kayaking on site
- Motor boating on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Nightclub
- Marina on site
- Pool umbrellas
- Computer station
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- Number of buildings/towers - 5
- Year Built 1960
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- Library
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- In-room massage available
- Individually furnished
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- 24-inch flat-screen TV
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Access via exterior corridors
Special features
DiningFranchino - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open daily.
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Also known as
- Hotel Onda Verde
- Hotel Onda Verde Praiano
- Onda Verde
- Onda Verde Hotel
- Onda Verde Praiano
- Hotel Onda Verde Praiano, Italy - Amalfi Coast
This hotel may place an authorization on credit cards for any bookings where payment for the stay will be made on site instead of at the time of booking. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 24 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.5 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 11 years of age.
Optional extras
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 120 per vehicle (one way)
Train station pick-up service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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The median home value in Romoland, CA is $290,000.
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Courtesy: Tarbell, REALTORS Jenny Seymany
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Beautiful corner lot property near one of the fastest growing cities in Southern California...Menifee! This property has 2,865sqft of living space and 11,325 sqft lot size which makes it perfect for entertainment and large family gatherings! As you walk in through the wide hallway, you will find a spacious kitchen with a large island and lots of cabinet space! Walk through the open living room to a gas fireplace and find grandmothers quarters which is a full bathroom and bedroom downstairs! Upstairs you will find a loft with its own door for privacy, a very large master bedroom and bathroom with sliding mirror door closest, 3 large rooms and a full bathroom. Spacious, a great curb appeal at a great value...schedule your showing today!
Courtesy: Trans United Real Estate Carlos Alvarado
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Welcome to this charming one level home located on a corner lot cul-de-sac street and minutes away from shopping and the 215 freeway. This loveable home features an open floor plan, 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms with an area that can be used as an office or study area and 1,586 square feet of living space on a 7,841 square foot lot. This lovely home boasts a double door entry, newer ceramic tile floor, newer baseboards, recessed lighting, vaulted ceiling, gas fireplace, surround sound system in the front room. The master bedroom bathroom features dual sinks and walk in closet. The back yard includes a sprinkler system, concrete slab and a gated area that can be used for pets. This home also has solar panels installed through the Hero program for energy efficiency and electricity costs savings to keep the monthly electricity bill to a minimum.
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BEAUTIFUL HERITAGE LAKE HOME SITUATED ON A PRIME LARGE VIEW LOT (11,000s.f.) BACKING UP TO COMMUNITY PASEO TRAIL. HOME INCLUDES LOFT, FIREPLACE IN THE GREAT ROOM, 4/5 BEDROOMS WITH 3 FULL BATHS, UPSTAIRS LAUNDRY ROOM. THE MIDDLE SCHOOL (ETHAN CHASE) IS AT THE END OF THE BLOCK. THERE'S ASSOCIATION POOL AND CLUB HOUSE. BACK YARD HAS LARGE CONCRETE PADS PERFECT TO ENTERTAINING. FIRST FLOOR BEDROOM, FULL BATH AND OFFICE/BEDROOM. KITCHEN WITH WALK IN PANTRY, UPSTAIRS WALK IN LINEN CLOSET, MASTER WITH DOUBLE WALK IN CLOSETS.
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Short Sale, 1 bank. This home features 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, a 2 car garage and a large drive way. Lots of potential. Close to schools, freeway and shops. Short sold AS-IS.
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UNIQUE CUSTOM COUNTRY HOME located just 25 minutes to Tem Wine Country.This 5366 sqft s/s home on over 1 acre built with top-of-the-line materials & boasts 5 bdrms, 4.5 baths with office/optional 6th bdrm, LRG gourmet kitchen, elegant formal LR, DR & Great Room(1500 sqft) with bar, FP, space for Billiards/game tables & French doors to courtyard. Circular driveway features parking for 10 with 4 covered & lighted spaces. The property is completely fenced w/2 auto gates, front & back wrap-around porches, lawn large enough for a pool/spa/outdoor kitchen/outdoor FP & patio. Room on the property for horses/garden/RV/toys, etc. Interior of home includes main hallway 50'x5' wide, granite, porcelain tile, storage galore, custom cabinets in each bdrm, bay windows with seats, huge Master Bdrm with en suite, XLG bathroom, tub & custom shower w/6x6 marble & glass block dual head fixtures, d/w, 3 a/c units, 2 evap coolers & 2 Whole House ceiling fans. There is also a 6K sqft steel W/H on site perfect for car collections, boats, off-road vehicles or other storage previously leased w/60'x100' two roll up/2man doors & 220 elec. Potential for multi-gen housing with possible conversion of 2 garages to a 2 bedroom guest home & still allow for a functioning 2-car garage.
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This is a beautiful turn key home in a very nice area. This is a 5 bedroom, 3 bad, 3 car garage with many fruit trees. Must see to appreciate. Its also close to schools and close to the 215 freeway.
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WOW!!! PRICE REDUCED!!!! GREAT OPPORTUNITY!!!!!!Looking for an affordable home in a rural area yet close to freeways and California Living? Then this is it. Bring your horses too!! You will love this fresh looking home with an attached two car garage and plenty of room for parking extra cars, trucks, an RV or your boat. You will love the cathedral ceilings - the huge family room, the wide open spaces and all the amenities you need for a comfortable way of life. Hurry! There are not many quality choices in this price range. Close to the 215 and the 74 and about a mile away form Big League of Dreams sports complex and the Drop Zone water park!
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This great home is walking distance to Heritage Lake and club house. The community has it all: walking trails, parks, ball field, lake, pool, club house. This home has been cared for and is priced to sell. Landscaped front and back, nice interior amenities. You will fall in love. This could be your home!
27421 Helene Way Romoland, CA 92585
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Investors wanted! This three bedroom two bath mobile home is a fixer upper on 1.08 acres of flat property, comes with a nice large metal "workshop" building, has a lot of potential. Backyard is completely fenced in with a long concrete driveway leading back there. Newer laminate wood floors throughout home. Fireplace in family room. Built in bookcase and hutch. Front and back covered porch. Well on property (not sure if it is working, but it has a newer pump installed). The house is on city water, the well is used for irrigation. New electric range. Vaulted ceilings with wood beams in family room. Property is being sold As-is.
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Wheatley River, an unincorporated area, is located in Queens County in the central portion of Prince Edward Island, S. of North Rustico. Its precise location is N 46°22', W 63°17'.
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It seems every day we are bombarded with stories in the technical and mainstream press of attacks of computer systems where passwords are stolen, after which these passwords are then available to attackers. The press frequently points out that one reason that these password data was retrievable is because "they were not encrypted." In this situation, it's important to recognize that the passwords in question are user passwords, those used to log in and access the system, not passwords associated with the system processes and binaries. This is an extremely important difference. As a result I will argue here that the premise "unencrypted passwords are bad" — without additional context — is technically inaccurate and misleading.
With such press coverage in mind, perhaps the most common comment received by WebSphere security consultants, by our technical sales people, and by the WebSphere security development architects, centers around customers wanting to encrypt passwords in their IBM WebSphere Application Server systems. Repeatedly, the message that we get is, "WebSphere is mostly meeting its claim of being secure by default, but there are passwords stored on the filesystem which are simply encoded, not encrypted." This is frequently followed by "and we failed our security audit because they are not encrypted."
First, it is the position of IBM Software Services for WebSphere and IBM WebSphere Development that, from a security perspective, the encoding of system passwords is not an exposure. Auditors who make these claims do not understand the security implications of what they are asserting to be a preferred solution. I will justify this position shortly.
However, since some clients have insisted that encryption of system passwords used by WebSphere Application Server is preferred over encoding, a System Programming Interface (SPI) has been available in WebSphere Application Server since Version 6.0.2 which can be leveraged to implement whatever password "hiding" solution a client might want to implement. Using this SPI, IBM Software Services for WebSphere has implemented such a solution for a number of clients. I will first define some basic security concepts, and then describe the design considerations in this custom solution.
The basics: Encoding versus encryption
What is the difference between encoding and encrypting? We use the term encoding to
apply a scheme where something is hidden by formula or algorithm. Consider an
example of a secret password that you want to "hide." For illustration, suppose I
have an admittedly very bad password:
SecretMonkey. A reversible
algorithm could be used to encode this phrase to "hide" its true value.
Julius Caesar is attributed to have used an encoding scheme called a Rotation cipher or a ROT cipher, where the numerical position in the alphabet is shifted by some number. History now calls this a Caesar cipher. The ROT3 cipher maps 3 character positions to the right. The mapping for ROT3 (for an English alphabet) is:
Plain: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Cipher: DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABC
My ROT3 ciphered password above then becomes:
Plain: SecretMonkey
Cipher: VhfuhwPrqnhb
When presented with this encoded string, professional cryptanalysts would quickly guess the encoding algorithm and decode it with the reversing algorithm (ROT-3). The strength of encoding is in the secrecy of the algorithm. It is important to remember that attackers are adept at reverse-engineering algorithms. Once that algorithm is known the data is unprotected.
Encryption, as opposed to encoding, bases its security not on the algorithm used, but on the strength of hard-to-guess keys. There are still algorithms used, but these algorithms are (typically) widely known and understood. Encryption algorithms differ from encoding algorithms in that they take two inputs – the text and a secret key. In much the same way that a 4 digit debit card PIN uses a 1 in 10,000 possible (104) choice secret, encryption keys use a secret key which takes a lot of effort to brute-force guess.
There are two types of encryption, and both are based on complex mathematics. The first type of encryption involves a single key –called Shared Key, Secret Key, or Symmetric Key Encryption. Consider two functions:
cipherText = Encrypt(plainText, secretKey);
and the reverse:
plainText = Decrypt(cipherText, secretKey);
To protect my data, I chose a key from a very large possible set of keys (for example, a 256 bit key, which is a set of 2256 possible numbers, which is a huge number; in decimal notation that is 1.15x1077: a 115 followed by 75 additional digits). As you can imagine, it would take someone a long time to call the Decrypt function iterating though all possible keys.
The second type of encryption uses two different, or asymmetric, keys. This type of encryption is known as Public Key or Asymmetric Encryption. These two keys are related to each other in a complex mathematical relationship. Without going into the mathematics, the function call to encrypt some text is:
cipherText = Encrypt(plainText, KeyA);
and the asymmetric reverse is:
plainText = Decrypt(cipherText, KeyB);
The important point here is that the strength of both types of encryption rest on the difficulty of guessing the key argument needed for that decrypt function – either the shared "secretKey" for data encrypted using Symmetric encryption, or the "KeyB" for Asymmetric Encryption.
Password hashing
I want to provide a little more "theory" here and introduce the idea of something called a one-way hash function. Again, I will not go into the mathematics, because the details are not actually important to my argument. A one-way hash function (again) uses a well known, understood, algorithm:
digest = hash(inputString);
where the inputString is transformed into an output called a digest, and where it is computationally infeasible to reverse the process (hence the term "one-way"). Every time you provide the same inputString, you get exactly the same digest. The digest usually is a constant length for a particular hash function. Hash functions have the additional property that if you change any one bit in the input, you get a completely different digest output.
A trivial hash function could produce an 8 bit digest. Every input "string" will produce one of 28 digests. If one bit of the inputs changes, a different digest is produced. If you are still paying attention, you will realize that there are an infinite number of input strings that produce the same digest. But we know that from a given digest it is impossible to guess the inputString. When the size of the digest becomes big enough (for example, 2256 bits), the chances of another random input producing the same digest are infinitely small.
Attackers realized that for a known algorithm, it is possible to pre-generate all possible input, and calculate their own digests. These were known as "rainbow" tables. In practice, implementers change the hash function behavior by concatenating any input string with a secret/different prefix called a salt. So the preferred usage is:
digest = hash(inputString||salt);
An attacker would have to build rainbow tables with all possible salt strings.
Why, you might be asking, am I meandering, and not getting to my point? Those press reports of stolen password databases are talking about systems where the users' passwords are checked against a database, and sadly, that data in the database was not properly protected. It is well accepted knowledge in the IT field that those passwords should not be stored in plaintext, but that they should contain the digest of the password with salt. In other words, a password "repository" should not contain my password string "SecretMonkey." When validating my password, the system should concatenate the particular salt that it uses to my string, compute the hash of that concatenated string, and compare it against the saved password digest. If those two digests match, there is an extremely high probability the inputString – "SecretMonkey" – was my password.
A fictitious example of hashing my string, with different salts might be:
- SecretMonkey (without salt) > !GHD&@DB&!DJD
- SecretMonkey||(salt=1111) > UCHAKJ$HDJS
- SecretMonkey||(salt=2222) > njurnasiurrjfdd
It is crucial that your security audit ensures that these passwords are stored in hashed form. Notice I did not say encrypted. I hope you understand the subtle distinction (one is reversible, the other is not).
But I am not finished. Without question, I support anyone who says that end users passwords must be stored as salted, hashed digests. But there is a colossal difference between end user passwords and system passwords.
User passwords are not system passwords
When a WebSphere system "fails" an audit because the system passwords are not "secure" the auditor is not seeing "user" passwords. These are the passwords associated with the operating system user ID that WebSphere Application Server runs as or the passwords that WebSphere Application Server applications use to connect to other systems. For example, when I login to the "Financial" application, I can imagine that following happens:
- I am authenticated against the LDAP. My userid and password are used in an LDAP bind operation. That LDAP server hashes the password (along with its unique salt) and compares the resulting digest against my saved digest to confirm or reject my claim of identity.
- Once authenticated, the web application connects to some backend databases to find new "notifications" and "network requests." This could be an SQL command similar to "select notifications where userid=Lansche". To prevent any computer within the network from having access to this data, the "Financial" application connects to that database with "FinancialApp" credentials. For the sake of argument, let us assume that these credentials are a userid and password.
Applications servers need passwords to perform LDAP searches, to connect to databases, queue managers, web services, and other applications, and for applications' runAs identities. When the application server authenticates to these other systems with a userid and password, the password needs to be sent in a "usable" format — the plain-text version of the password. As my colleague T. Rob Wyatt explains in his blog:
|From: Store and Forward: Encrypting passwords in config files – secure or not?
Ultimately, it comes down to this: any system that must boot to operational status unattended must have access to a useable authentication credential …"Unattended" means that the system must go from powered down to fully operational without human intervention. Is it acceptable that after rebooting a server all the applications start up a command prompt waiting for a human user to enter all the passwords? Usually not. Overwhelmingly not. There are some cases where this is true but I don't have the security clearances to work with those systems and if I did I couldn't write about it anyway. For everyone else we all need systems that recover automatically and without human intervention. Bottom line, "unattended" means that the credentials must be stored where the application can access them at run time, usually in the file system.
In other words, when the "Financial" application starts up you have two choices:
- Wait for an operator to type in at a console the password for the "FinancialApp" userid (and every other system account needed), or
- The application obtains the password from somewhere on the filesystem.
I am confident that real applications follow the second model. Most non-military/national-security systems follow the second model.
PCI-DSS and system passwords
So, your auditor says that those system passwords must be encrypted. The PCI-DSS does not include that particular requirement. If fact, the only thing they say about system passwords is, "Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters."
Figure 1 Table from PCI DSS - Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures, Version 2.0
There are certainly other mentions of "passwords" in the specification – but those relate explicitly to user passwords. For example, requirement 8 mandates that you "Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access," and as part of that, section 8.4 states that passwords must be "unreadable during transmission and storage on all system components using strong cryptography." This is critical – user passwords should not be stored anywhere unhashed; indeed as I mentioned above, the only storage should be a salted one-way hash! However, this refers explicitly to user passwords, not to system passwords.
Why encrypted passwords are no more secure than encoded passwords
But suppose your auditor insists. Let us analyze the process the system now goes through logically.
- Assume that encoding passwords is not sufficient. Why? Because anyone with read
access to the filesystem has access to the credentials:
- Perhaps users have access to the filesystem, or
- Applications running in WebSphere Application Server can read the passwords, or
- Applications running outside of WebSphere Application Server, perhaps applications that are part of the operating system – which, due to some unforeseen vulnerability, allow for remote viewing or exfiltration of files from the filesystem
- You implement the password encoding SPI, and encrypt the password. To do this, you need a key. The password is now stored encrypted on the filesystem. Assume a symmetric encryption (it is faster than asymmetric encryption). You store the key in a keystore.
- To be able to convert from the encrypted text back to plain text the server needs the decryption key. The server reads the key from the keystore. To prevent any application from being able to trivially get that key from the keystore, you password protect the keystore. WebSphere Application Server needs access to that password to be able to read the keystore. Where is that password saved? Because prompting an operator is not acceptable, that password is stored (drum roll please) in a file on the file system; a file containing a password to enable an application to read a keystore is known as a "stash" file.
But wait! We said in step 1, that our fundamental issue is that we are unable to control what processes have access to the filesystem. We still have that problem. Now it is slightly more inconvenient, but all the pieces necessary to get this system password remain on the filesystem and accessible to WebSphere Application Server or applications running inside the application server:
- The password as cipher text within the WebSphere Application Server configuration files.
- The keystore containing the key needed to decrypt that cipher text.
- The stash file containing the password to read the key from the keystore.
We have only moved the problem two steps to the right. This is no more secure than the passwords simply being encoded in the file. In fact, T-Rob, in his blog entry makes a compelling argument that encrypting system passwords lowers the system's security.
The real security issue to be addressed is controlling who (people or applications) has access to the filesystem. The best way to address this real security issue is discussed in my hardening paper. (Hint: use file system access control.)
Where encryption of system passwords can be helpful
When it was initially published, this article ended the discussion of password encoding versus encryption at this point. You should not infer that password encryption is not a good idea. Instead, it should be pointed out that in addition to infrastructure hardening, you must also consider weaknesses in people, in other applications beyond WebSphere Application Server, and in Java EE applications deployed and running in WebSphere Application Server.
An administrator who posts his configuration XML files to Stackoverflow inadvertently exposes his encoded passwords. Sending these XML files to IBM for support purposes similarly exposes these files. In both cases, though, encrypted passwords would avoid accidental publishing or sharing of system passwords.
Any other application on your system could contain security bugs that make it possible to read and exfiltrate files – if that application can be run as the WebSphere user (or as the root user) and the files can be exfiltrated from the system, password encryption of the WebSphere Application Server files will only make it slightly more difficult to decrypt the passwords.
Application weaknesses could be the result of careless design or coding, or they could be the result of a malicious programmer. Depending on just how sloppy the programmer was, encryption of passwords could make the attacker's job either a little bit or a lot harder. Remember, if you have a malicious coder who is deliberately trying to obtain passwords, password encryption will not stop him. Re-read the above sections; password encryption does not prevent the malicious coder – he will simply leverage the same code that the container uses to decrypt the password.
Let's return to the careless programmer. Consider a hypothetical application that enables a user to render the contents of a log file to his browser. Rather than show the user a list of files, the programmer provides an entry field where the user can enter the file name. The badly implemented application does not validate the input to prevent specification of absolute or relative paths. This lack of validation results in a path traversal vulnerability. An attacker tries path traversal attacks to check if he can see the contents of random files on the file system. If the attacker can specify the path to a file on the file system containing a non-encrypted password, and this file is displayed, then I think we can all agree that this is bad.
Regardless of the attack vector that allows an attacker to exfiltrate files – whether it's a well-intentioned but badly implemented application function, or a vulnerability in some other application on the system — encrypting the passwords would make it harder to get the plain text passwords, but only marginally. At this point, you should re-read the above sections on the mechanics of decryption.
If that attacker can also exfiltrate the key file on the file system containing the encryption key (which WebSphere Application Server must be able to read), then the attacker now has both parts necessary to determine the plain-text password. The attacker would need to know what the file is called – but there must be some property in the configuration files that specifies the name of the keyfile. Getting three files is harder than getting one file, but not by much. Rendering of a binary key file via a browse-file function might make determining the key harder, but not impossible.
Aside from in-house developed applications, purchased applications need to take steps to prevent path traversal vulnerabilities, or other vulnerabilities which return unrestricted file contents to the user. If they do, they are high priority security vulnerabilities. When vulnerabilities are discovered within IBM products, we provide patches to stop this access, but we don't control all the applications that run on your systems, either within WebSphere Application Server or otherwise.
Now you might ask "what if I store the keyfile obtained from somewhere else not on the file system?" Two alternatives come to mind: hardware keystores (or the key) is read via some programmatic API – a service call, database query, HTTP request, and so on. If the attacker can only see files on the file system, but the executing WebSphere Application Server must execute some code to get the key, then encryption might be helpful. Remember, however, that the malicious coder can write code to deliberately get the password using the same APIs that WebSphere Application Server does.
If you insist...
The interface for defining your own password handler is the com.ibm.wsspi.security.crypto.CustomPasswordEncryption interface. You create a com.ibm.wsspi.security.crypto.CustomPasswordEncryptionImpl class, and place the class in the <WAS>/lib/ext directory. WebSphere Application Server processes will use this class without further administrative configuration. There can be only a single class that implements the interface. This interface defines the following methods (as expected):
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EncryptedInfoencrypt(byte[] decrypted_bytes) throws PasswordEncryptException byte[] decrypt(EncryptedInfo info) throws PasswordDecryptException void initialize(java.util.HashMap initialization_data)
This last method is reserved for future use and is currently not called by the WebSphere Application Server runtime.
WebSphere Application Server interacts with these passwords in two ways: it stores the files when the passwords change, and it reads the files to obtain the password.
When WebSphere Application Server stores a password that has been updated, it checks to see if a custom encryption provider is available. If a provider is available, it will be given the cleartext password. The provider should manipulate the password in some way and return to WebSphere Application Server binary information that is meaningful to the provider. WebSphere Application Server then stores this binary information in an appropriate XML file as usual. The stored data indicates that it was encoded using a custom provider. This impacts future reads.
When WebSphere Application Server needs a password, it reads the configuration information (stored as XML files) and examines the information to determine if a custom provider was used. If the password is encoded in the default manner, WebSphere Application Server decodes it internally, as usual. If a custom provider has been used, WebSphere Application Server will pass the encoded binary information to the user-defined provider if one is available (if one is not available an error will occur). It is then the responsibility of the provider to return to WebSphere Application Server a clear text password that is represented by that binary data.
This model of lazy read/write means that at any given time in a WebSphere Application Server cell there might be passwords encoded using the default mechanism and other passwords encoded/encrypted using a custom mechanism. And, should the provider allow for updating the encryption key (as ours does), it is possible that multiple passwords might be stored within the same cell that are encrypted using different keys. Thus, the provider must be able to decrypt a password encrypted using any previous encryption key. Our provider addresses this by keeping multiple key versions and by embedding the key version in the information about the encrypted password.
Our provider design highlights
The remainder of this article documents the IBM Software Services for WebSphere custom password encryption provider. This is not a freely available piece of code, and there is no attachment that you can download with this article. Rather, this is an IBM Software Services for WebSphere services asset and is available by engaging with IBM Software Services for WebSphere in a billable services engagement. During this engagement, an IBM Software Services for WebSphere consultant will work with you to understand and document your requirements and tailor the asset if needed to better meet your use cases. They will then leave you with your own copy of the asset code, which you can then use in your enterprise.
The key driver in making this code available as an IBM Software Services for WebSphere asset is that, while there is very little actual security value in using this code, the true value is in enabling clients to pass a security audit where this issue has been raised, despite the fact that the encoding of system passwords is not a security exposure. In our experience, if the IBM Software Services for WebSphere security consultant is allowed to interact with the PCI auditor during the course of the engagement, there is a good chance that he or she will be able to educate the auditor on the difference between system and user passwords and negate the requirement to deploy (and therefore own and be responsible for) the code!
The key design decision in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere custom password encryption provider implementation was to leverage the existing Java JCE infrastructure as much as possible. Thus, the symmetric keys that are used for password encryption and decryption are stored using the Java KeyStore support. We specifically chose to use the JCEKS format, as this format properly supports symmetric keys. Java KeyStores allow for the keys stored in the keystore to be encrypted using a password, and they also allow for the keystore file to also be encrypted using a password. Rather than asking a human being to come up with an appropriate password, we automatically generate a very long (30+ characters) alphanumeric password and stash that in a second file – our stash, or master password file. To prevent trivial snooping, that file's contents are XOR'ed (using a four character XOR mask) to make guessing difficult.
When WebSphere Application Server needs to encrypt any system or WebSphere Application Serer password the provider is called. The provider is expected to return a string and encrypted bytes. (It is important to note that if you are using the file-based repository in the Federated Repositories user registry, user passwords are one-way salted hashed passwords. WebSphere Application Server does not use this SPI for writing those user passwords). When WebSphere Application Server needs to decrypt a password, it checks to see if the custom provider or default provider was used. If the custom provider was used, it is given a string (defined by the provider) and bytes. The provider's job is to return the password as a char array. We take advantage of that string to store meaningful information.
Be aware that WebSphere Application Server does not automatically encrypt all passwords. It will only start using the code for new encryptions, so our code added functionality to force WebSphere Application Server to re-encrypt all passwords.
In order to enable managing and periodically updating the encryption keys without having to stop the entire cell, we need to support multiple encryption key versions at the same time. To do this, we embed in the string given to WebSphere Application Server the key version used to encrypt that password. A class we called the EncryptionKeyManager maintains a set of encryption keys (ordered by creation time). Whenever a string is decrypted, the key used to encrypt is used (assuming it is still available). When a string is encrypted, the latest key is used. When servers are started, they read into memory the latest version of the keystore and, thus, all of the current keys. In the event that a decryption fails because of a missing key version, the CustomPasswordEncryptImpl class will automatically reload the keystore to see if there is a newer key available. This might happen if a new encryption key is added (and the DMgr is restarted) but the application servers are not restarted. Thus, our solution does not require application server restart after the initial configuration to effect changes to the keys used for encryption.
Strong cryptography is obviously a key requirement of this solution. Therefore, we made the following decisions regarding cryptography usage:
- We use the Java JCEKS keystore provider, as it is capable of storing symmetric keys.
- We use a Java JCE Cipher that uses AES encryption with Cipher Feedback Mode. We also use no padding to avoid adding characters to passwords. The precise provider string is therefore AES/CFB/NoPadding (see the JCE documentation).
- Since we are using a CFB algorithm, we must also store the initialization vector used for encrypting data; we allow the JCE runtime to create a random initialization vector each time a Cipher is used to encrypt a password. We then store that vector with the password for initializing the Cipher before decryption. Using a separate vector for each password limits its reuse and improves the security of the encryption. Even if the same password is encrypted using the same key, the resulting encrypted data is dramatically different.
- We use 128 bit key lengths for the AES encryption. Longer key lengths require special JDK JCE jurisdiction files. These special files are limited by US Federal export laws. Given the amount of data being encrypted and the inherent weakness in the approach (storing the decryption keys on the same file system), we do not believe longer keys provide any significant improvement in security.
- We add random salt to the start of each password prior to encryption to further randomize the information stored, making decryption even more difficult.
We have chosen not to make the keystore, algorithm, or encryption type configurable, as doing so would significantly complicate the implementation, and also raise the possibility that someone could accidentally configure very weak password storage. Since all configuration information is managed by a single class, anyone with source code access (and appropriate cryptographic skills) can change the code to use other algorithms or configurations.
One obvious question to consider when adding support for the encryption of passwords is what impact this might have on performance. Cryptography is, of course, expensive and performing cryptographic operations could have a serious impact on the performance of applications. Fortunately, WebSphere Application Server aggressively caches (in memory) decoded/decrypted passwords. Therefore, while there will be a slight performance overhead when starting servers (while they read the passwords) and when making administrative changes that impact passwords, runtime performance should not be effected by this solution.
A final concern pertains to the keeping of passwords in memory. Unfortunately, while the concern is valid, there is simply no feasible way around this issue. As required by the J2C specification, every request to a resource must first check with a login module to obtain credentials for the back end resource. The login module must provide, among other things, the cleartext password so that the underlying resource can use it (this only applies to resources that need passwords). If passwords were not remembered in memory decrypted, every call to getConnection() on every resource from every application would result in a password decryption. That would likely have a significant performance impact. Since getting passwords from a memory image of a process is not easy, we consider this risk acceptable given the very real performance benefit.
Security implications
As argued above, it is important to remember that the approach described in this article only marginally increases the security of a WebSphere Application Server environment by making it more difficult for a secondary file exfiltration to obtain files containing system passwords, and file traversal and exfiltration is only the most obvious attack vector, other attack vectors are not only possible, but certain. Prior to the use of this enhancement an attacker had to exfiltrate a password-containing file and then figure out how to undo the XOR and base64 encoding. With the use of this feature, an attacker has to exfiltrate both the password-containing file and the encryption key files (which must be on the machine and must have the same read access permissions as the password file). Then, the attacker needs to use these files together to decrypt the passwords. While not trivial, it is not necessarily difficult for someone with the right skills. A secondary value of this solution is provided in the cases where the WebSphere Application Server XML configuration files are shared with third parties, storing the passwords in an encrypted form does prevent those third parties from determining the real value of passwords embedded in the XML configuration files. This presumes, of course, the third party is not provided a copy of the encryption keys — this is why this solution stores the encryption keys outside of the XML configuration tree.
The downside, as stated when this article was initially published, is that encrypting passwords provides the illusion of stronger security, which could result in a false sense of security, leaving systems no more secure than simply employing password encoding. Password encryption must be combined with a comprehensive and in-depth set of security policies, procedures, and reviews or audits.
Moreover, it is still important to remember that a determined attacker might still succeed, even when you have encrypted the passwords.
When backing up the system, some consideration should be given to the fact that the backups contain both the encrypted passwords and the decryption keys. For maximum security, you should carefully protect those backups and even consider storing the decryption keys on a separate backup. If you choose the latter option, be very careful not to lose those keys. The passwords cannot be recovered without the decryption keys!
Availability implications
The decision to encrypt passwords using secret keys leaves open the possibility of a total and unrecoverable cell outage in the event of the loss of an encryption key. Therefore, it is crucial that you backup your cell prior to any key management operations and take great care when performing any key management activity. If an action results in the loss of encryption information that is still in use, there is no way to recover without backups.
Managing the keys: the passmgr utility
A simple command line utility (passmgr.bat/sh) is provided to manage the encryption data. The launch script has UNIX® and Windows® versions. The passmgr script follows the standard documented "thin client" launch approach.
After copying passmgr.bat/sh to some directory and editing the script to specify the correct value for WASHOME, the tool is launched quite simply by using passmgr.bat/sh, for example:
In most cases, you will want to provide the profile name of the WebSphere Application Server profile the tool should work with. If no profile is specified, the default profile will be used. To specify a profile, start the passmgr.bat with a profileName. For example:
passmgr.bat -profileName Dmgr01
After specifying the profile name, there are a number of additional optional arguments, as well as the mandatory command. The commands available are listed below; if you try to run the tool without providing a command, you will get an error message indicating your options:
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passmgr.bat No arguments specified Usage: <command> [-dir <dir>] [-key <key#>] [-host <dmgr host>] [-port <dmgr port>] [-trace] where <command> is one of: create - create keyfile addkey - add a key to keyfile info - print information about a keyfile deletekey - delete a key from keyfile scanall - scan/read all passwords (may aid in debugging app server issues forceencrypt - force the reencryption of all existing passwords changemasterkey - change the master key protecting the keyfile
The optional arguments have the following meanings:
- -dir: Specify an alternative root for the keyfiles. This is useful if you want to create a keyfile, but do not want to update the keyfiles used by the current profile. It is handy for testing.
- -key: For commands that require a key number (for example, deletekey) this is the key number.
- -host: For those commands that talk to the dmgr (for example, scanall and forceencrypt), you can specify a non-default dmgr hostname. The default is localhost.
- -port: For those commands that talk to the dmgr (for example, scanall and forceencrypt), you can specify a non-default dmgr port. The default is 8879.
- -trace: Output trace information to the console to indicate what the management tool is doing.
IBM WebSphere Application Server (and products built on top of WebSphere Application Server) stores system account passwords in a variety of files within the WebSphere Application Server profiles file structure. These passwords are encoded, not encrypted. Encrypting these passwords can increase security for a certain class of vulnerability.
WebSphere Application Server provides an SPI for customizing the processing of these system passwords. This article described an IBM Software Services for WebSphere custom implementation of this SPI.
If you are interested in deploying this custom implementation from IBM Software Services for WebSphere, or in learning more about WebSphere Application Server security, contact IBM Software Services for WebSphere to discuss the possibility of engaging with a security consultant, or for a customized on-site class in WebSphere Application Server security. The class covers security hardening, customizing authentication, integration, single sign on, and a variety of other related topics in depth.
I would like to thank my colleagues Bill O'Donnell, Tom Alcott, Simon Kapadia, T. Rob Wyatt, Pete Neergaard, David Mundhenck and Paul Glezen for their valuable input and assistance.
I would especially like to thank Keys Botzum who wrote the original asset, and original drafts of a significant portion of the text above.
- WebSphere Application Server security
- Advanced Authentication in WebSphere Application Server
- Advanced security hardening in WebSphere Application Server V7, V8 and V8.5, Part 1: Overview and approach to security hardening
- Information Center: Plug point for custom password encryption
- Sun JCE documentation
- Wikipedia: Block cipher modes of operation (cryptography)
- Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard – Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures – Version 2.0 Oct 2010
- Encrypting passwords in config files – secure or not?
- IBM developerWorks WebSphere
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The month of May is Mental Health Month across the United States. This month originally started as Mental Health Awareness Week way back in the 1940s, and in the 1960s was upgraded to a monthly designation. Fortunately, public attitudes towards mental illness appear to be changing with a growing recognition of the need for better mental health awareness and mental health services.
During this month, there are numerous activities and events that focus on raising awareness about important mental health issues and needs in our communities. Due to the Sandy Hook tragedy, Connecticut has been in the forefront of focusing on the importance of mental health services for those in need. Our state is undergoing a great deal of reflection about how we identify those in need of help and how to deliver appropriate services. While there is still great debate about the role of guns contributing to violence, there is near unanimous accord that better mental health awareness and service delivery are essential components in the effort to curb violence by unstable, mentally ill individuals.
To that end, the Meriden Community Health Center, Inc. will be hosting the second annual 5- and 10-K Race and Walk for Mental Health Awareness on Saturday, May 3 at Hubbard Park. This community event raises mental health awareness in our community. The race also generates funds for the local United Way to conduct trainings in mental health awareness for businesses and educators to understand the signs of mental illness and how to respond appropriately.
If you would like to participate in this event or make a donation to support these efforts, please go to www.FastTrackTiming.com. Positive and pro-active efforts to promote mental health awareness and the implementation of more robust and responsive mental health services hold the key to preventing the violence caused by those with mental health issues and the aftermath of grief and sorrow left in their wake.
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Skip to comments.In Support of Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa's Children
Posted on 04/08/2003 8:50:07 PM PDT by Herodotus
I trust the moderators will tolerate a first-time threadmaker and help me to put this where it goes.
Building from the David Bloom support thread, I begin this thread to direct attention to the recently established trust fund for the two children of Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa. She perished in combat when the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in southern Iraq, and leaves behind two children. She was the first woman to die in combat, and one of the small number of Native American women in the U.S. military. She served her country and her tribe with honor and dignity as a warrior.
Information follows on the recently established trust fund for her children.
Piestewa memorial fund established
By DAILY SUN STAFF 04/08/2003
The Hopi Tribe Monday established a fund to benefit Pfc. Lori Piestewa's two children and gave an address for those who wish to send their condolences to the family of the slain Hopi soldier.
"We've just been inundated with tons of requests from people in the community wanting to contribute in some form or another," said Vanessa Charles, spokeswoman for the Hopi Tribe.
Donations to the "Lori Piestewa Memorial Fund" can be made at any Wells Fargo Bank. The number of the Piestewa account is 0464633783.
Piestewa, 23, has two children, a boy 4 and a girl 3. Piestewa grew up in the Hopi village of Lower
Moenkopi and was a graduate of Tuba City High School.
She was a soldier in the 507th Maintenance Company out of Fort Bliss, Texas, that was ambushed March 23. The Department of Defense notified the Piestewa family Friday evening that the young solider was among eight 507th soldiers killed in action in the ambush.
Charles said donations to the memorial fund "will go directly into a fund for the children."
Calls offering financial assistance to help the Piestewa children have come from across Arizona and the nation, said Charles.
Anyone who wishes to send a card or note of condolence to the Piestewa family may send them to the Hopi Tribe, P.O. Box 123, Kykotsmovi, AZ., 86039. Please write "Lori Piestewa" on the outside of the envelope, Charles said.
Cards and notes may also be sent to the Piestewa family in care of the Tuba City Unified School District, P.O. Box 67, Tuba City, AZ 86045.
Charles said no firm plans have been released by the Piestewa family regarding funeral services or a public memorial.
The vice president of the Navajo Nation ordered Monday that flags be flown at half staff on the reservation for two days in honor of Piestewa, the first American servicewoman killed in the war and one of only a handful of American Indian women serving in the military.
"Lori Piestewa's military service is a reflection of the dedication of our Native American soldiers who are defending our nation and traditional homelands in this time of war," said Navajo Vice President Frank Dayish Jr.
"We should honor, respect and salute our committed military personnel serving in this conflict," he said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the Piestewa family."
Dayish's executive order asked that Navajo Nation flags across the reservation be flown at half staff on both Monday and Tuesday.
Piestewa was also remembered during the opening ceremony Monday of the National Indian Gaming Association convention in Phoenix.
The group's chairman, Ernest L. Stevens Jr., described Piestewa as "one of the greatest warriors of all time."
"As we move on we do that with great honor to the great warrior that's lost defending this country, a warrior that lost her life trying to bring peace to this world," Stevens said. "We'll keep her close to our heart, keep her close to our thoughts."
Tribal musicians sang an honor prayer in memory of Piestewa and members of California's Morongo Band of Mission Indians pledged $5,000 toward a fund for her children.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Wells Fargo, acct# 0464633783.
That said, however, we must look to the future and ask if the Armed Forces is any place for single mothers. Our services are filled with so many of them that some headquarters and support outfits look more like daycare centers than military units. This is not a good thing. So much has gone right in this war, but we need to re-learn a few old, common-sense lessons...
It's actually 'Squaw Peak', a major landmark in north central Phoenix. The name has been contentious for some time for the usual PC reasons. I usually scoff at such concerns, but my patriotism has got the better of my cynicism this time and I support the proposal.
The Arizona Republic had an editorial today calling for it to be renamed 'Piestewa Peak'.
Then there is the question of what to rename the 'Squaw Peak Parkway', among other local landmarks that take their names from the mountain. 'Piestewa Parkway' has a musical alliterative sound to it but it seems a bit much to give PFC Piestewa both a peak and a major expressway. Liberty Parkway, Veterans Parkway, or Goldwater Parkway would all be fine by me.
No informed individual could read about the children left by this single mother and fail to think the same thought which I expressed. It is an elephant standing in the middle of the room, and mentioning it does not impugn PFC Piestewa's honor. To the contrary, ignoring the obvious only perpetuates the misguided political correctness that helped to orphan the Piestewa children.
Good post...
Thank you for posting.
Here is a link to the Navajo Times.
The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (www.marine-scholars.org) has served that purpose quite admirably since 1962. The children of a number of my fallen friends had their tuition paid by the fund, so I can attest to its mission and its success. It is a well-managed charity.
A newer foundation is the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation (www.mc-lef.org), which was expanded to include law enforcement after 9/11. It has an outstanding board of directors, some of whom I know personally or have served with, and all of whom I greatly respect. The foundation has no employees; virtually all expenses are absorbed by its officers and volunteers, so all gifts will reach their intended recipients.
I honor this woman. She gave her life for her country. And it is extremely difficult to raise children being a single parent. I know; I did it. She was working hard to support them and I appreciate her for that as well. Actually, I think that signing up for reserve service is an excellent way for parents, especially single ones, to help support their families. But I agree with you that she shouldn't have been in a combat zone. I think it's a pity that the feminists have used female reservists to accomplish their political purposes, especially when most of them would never have the courage to be in the military like this young woman.
Thank you, Herodotus, for posting this. I would be interested in contributing for these children.
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