Press Release

August 16, 2005

EDJ Encryption Utility Set

EDJ Enterprises, Inc. (EDJ) is making available a set of encryption modules for IBM 4690 sales applications (GSA, CDSA, Specialty and Supermarket).  These modules will assist retailers in protecting customer account number data appearing in transaction logs, electronic journals and other files that exist on the IBM 4690 store controller.

The EDJ Encryption Utility Set is a set of 4690 “CBasic” and “C” routines that encrypt, decrypt and encode encrypted data into a printable format.  This flexibility will allow clear text, as well as binary data, to be encrypted and stored in an ordinary text file.  The routines are available for use in the register, the controller and on Windows platforms.

How does it work?

The Encryption Utility Set provides a function call that will take a key supplied by the retailer and data supplied by the retailer to be encrypted and return a two part string.  The first part is an identifier that describes the encryption characteristics of the data.  This would include encryption type, length, initialization vector, etc.  The second part of the string is the encrypted data.  This data is encrypted and encoded to make the data available in a printable format.

The retailer will integrate the routines into their terminal user exit code or into controller applications as needed to protect customer account data.  Through the use of function calls, the retailer will pass information to the routine and received encrypted information back to be passed to the appropriate destination.

What does it cost?

EDJ is making the EDJ Encryption Utility Set available to its ESCAPE licensees at no charge.  It will be available to other retailers at a nominal fee.

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