Migrating older Audience Manager passwords to encrypted passwords
The sample webpages provided in a previous version of Audience Manager stored passwords in plain text. After upgrading to the current version, we recommend that you use the utility methods that are now provided in the API to encrypt passwords using one-way hash values.
- Converting plain text passwords to hash values
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The Audience Manager API (.NET) provides access to Audience Manager item types (Contacts and Segments) on the Content Manager. If you already have Contacts with plain text passwords, you can convert these passwords to one-way hash values using the
DigestPassword()andCheckPassword()methods in theTridion.AudienceManagement.APInamespace. - Encrypting passwords to hash values
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If your website uses Java, encrypt passwords using the
DigestPassword()andCheckPassword()methods in thecom.tridion.marketingsolution.utilitiespackage (Outbound E-mail Content Delivery (Java) API).