Secure a database password
To add extra security to your Jira instance, you can encrypt the database password that is stored in the configuration file used by Jira to access your database. We’ve prepared different encryption methods for basic and advanced users. Additionally, you can create your own encryption based on our Cipher interface.
The solutions outlined below provide a level of protection for encrypting database values, but do not offer complete security. Jira still needs to use the plain text password to connect to your database, so the configuration will contain all the information needed to decrypt the password. An attacker could act like Jira to obtain the password. We recommend that you secure the server where Jira and the database reside.
Base64 encoding
We don't recommend Base64 encoding in production for securing secrets because it doesn't provide encryption, and therefore cannot guarantee sufficient data protection.
AES encryption
This method uses Algorithm cipher that allows you to choose the algorithm used to encrypt your password. It provides more security as you don't have to store the encrypted password anywhere in the configuration file, which makes it difficult to find and decrypt.
Learn more about AES encryption
Creating your own Cipher
If you have extra requirements for storing the password, you can create your own Cipher based on our implementation and examples. To do this, you will need Java knowledge and some basic knowledge of Maven.