The Administration API provides an encryption system to safeguard sensitive information, such as passwords, contained in the XML description of an object.
When you import an XML document using an operation such as create or update, you can indicate in the XML whether a value is encrypted. In this example, the password is in plain text, which either sets it for the first time or changes it to a new value:
<search:password encrypted="false">password</search:password>
Oracle SES stores the password in an encrypted form. The next example shows an encrypted password, which was exported in an XML document from Oracle SES:
<search:password encrypted="true"> 128b6b43091659ffa1ff068666b8eb6445dabd361871b6a5b97941f00ee8c842e76bcc1eb3c0806fd0f6ee2e3ab371febcf053255ffd4e46888909cdd553914bfabe99eda51861d7 </search:password>
When exporting an XML document containing a password, Oracle SES requires you to provide an encryption key. If you use this document as input to an operation (encrypted="true"), then you must use the same encryption key as the export operation so that Oracle SES can decrypt the password.