Recently I have started to use the Jasypt CLI tools. Before that, I have always had to use the tedious way with the Maven plugin just to do a simple encryption and decryption for any deployment update. This article is meant to complement the guides from the page Jasypt: Java simplified encryption.
Table of contents
Requirements
- Java JRE
- Terminal, in this example is the Git Bash on Windows.
- Downloading the distribution zip file of Jasypt - from the link in the file README in the Jasypt's GitHub repo.
Steps
- Check the path to the default $JAVA_HOME
$ echo $JAVA_HOME C:\Users\your.username\.jdks\corretto-17.0.12 - Edit your aliases.sh for Git Bash. See this article on how to add permanent aliases in Git Bash.
jasypt_algorithm=PBEWithMD5AndDES jasypt_path={path-to-your-unzipped-jasypt}/jasypt-1.9.3/bin jasypt_password={your choice of master password} alias encrypt-jasypt='$jasypt_path/encrypt.sh password=$jasypt_password algorithm=$jasypt_algorithm' alias encrypt-jasypt='$jasypt_path/decrypt.sh password=$jasypt_password algorithm=$jasypt_algorithm' - Start a new session of Git Bash
- Test the encryption
$ encrypt-jasypt input="foo.b4r" ----ENVIRONMENT----------------- Runtime: Amazon.com Inc. OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 17.0.12+7-LTS ----ARGUMENTS------------------- input: foo.b4r password: ***** algorithm: PBEWithMD5AndDES ----OUTPUT---------------------- pJ3SUb+U4Xh98+uF0f2uYA== - Test the decryption
$ decrypt-jasypt input="pJ3SUb+U4Xh98+uF0f2uYA==" ----ENVIRONMENT----------------- Runtime: Amazon.com Inc. OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 17.0.12+7-LTS ----ARGUMENTS------------------- input: pJ3SUb+U4Xh98+uF0f2uYA== password: **** algorithm: PBEWithMD5AndDES ----OUTPUT---------------------- foo.b4r 
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