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Password Hashing

The MDM Hub uses a password hashing method to protect user passwords. The MDM Hub master database stores the user passwords in hashed form. When users log in to the MDM Hub, their request is encrypted with a combination of public and private keys. To authenticate users, the MDM Hub decrypts their request, generates the hash, and compares the value with the hashed value retrieved from the master database.

The hashing algorithm is a concatenation of the password string and multiple randomly generated values. The default algorithm used for password hashing is SHA3. However, you can also configure a custom hashing algorithm. You configure the hashing implementation class during installation of the MDM Hub. Alternatively, you can configure the hashing implementation class through the Hub Server properties in the

cmxserver.properties

file.

Password hashing replaces Blowfish encryption in the MDM Hub.

For more information about password hashing, see the

Informatica MDM Multidomain Edition Version 10.2 Security Guide

and the

Informatica MDM Multidomain Edition Version 10.2 Configuration Guide

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