Patent ID: 7640594
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from an application executing on a user terminal, a database access statement at a web application server; accessing a user-configurable key phrase from a key phrase file located in a shared directory accessible by a plurality of web application servers in response to receiving the database access statement of a distributed system responsive to the request for the connection information; at the application server, combining a system identifier of the web application server with the user-configurable encryption key phrase to create an encryption key; at the application server, obtaining an encrypted string from a secure storage file in the shared directory via a find operation; at the application server, parsing the encrypted string into substrings; and at the application server, decrypting one of the substrings with the encryption key to obtain connection information to a database including a password and an address for the database.