Jasypt Encrypt/Decrypt in command line

It’s needed to encrypt passwords of PROD or even NON-PROD when they’re in configuration files. Jasypt is used as a tools to encrypt/decrypt password in our application. And it can be done from command line. Here we go

Encrypt

java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.2/jasypt-1.9.2.jar org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringEncryptionCLI input="input-to-encrypt" password="XXXXXX" algorithm=PBEWithMD5AndDES

Then you’ll see

----OUTPUT----------------------

m3CGfER1ZH32bLGgflT0McyLQkRkwiabwxocleSzBCY=

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Decrypt

java -cp ~/.m2/repository/org/jasypt/jasypt/1.9.2/jasypt-1.9.2.jar org.jasypt.intf.cli.JasyptPBEStringDecryptionCLI input="m3CGfER1ZH32bLGgflT0McyLQkRkwiabwxocleSzBCY=" password="XXXXXX" algorithm=PBEWithMD5AndDES

Then, you got the password back

----OUTPUT----------------------

input-to-encrypt

Links

https://github.com/jasypt/jasypt