Secrets

It is not advisable to store passwords in clear text in configuration files. To avoid storing secrets in clear text in the core.properties and gui.properties files, FlowerDocs provides a secret encryption mechanism.

To indicate to FlowerDocs that a property value is encrypted, it must be defined as ENC(<encrypted value>). An encrypted property is decrypted at application startup using its main secret (secret). In this way, a different cipher can be defined for each application.

The application cannot be started if a property, indicated as encrypted, cannot be decrypted.

Property encryption can be achieved in several ways, starting with a master secret:

Curl

curl -X POST \
  <core>/rest/encrypt \
  -H 'token: <token>' \
  -d {{toEncrypt}}

info

With this method, we recommend setting the properties token.key and system.admin.password as a minimum.

This recommendation also applies to components developed around the FlowerDocs ecosystem: GUI plugins and operation handlers.

The secret for each application can be defined in different ways:

• as an environment variable: the name is secret and the value is ,<secret>, the machine must be rebooted to take effect
• as a property of the JVM by adding: --secret=<secret> when running the application
• in the core.properties and gui.properties files (not recommended)

The secret declared in system variables takes precedence over the one defined in the properties file.