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I'm creating a digital signature for an integration and I've created a private/public key pair to sign the message. According to the Apex Crypto Class documentation,

This private key should not be hardcoded in the Apex script but should be stored in a protected custom setting or a encrypted fields in a custom table.

but the there's limit for the text fields, and the key obviously surpasses that.

I found a solution that involved splitting the key in and storing it in more than 1 field in the custom setting and then concatenate everything in the code; I don't find this solution extremely good because there are much more chances of something going wrong and consequently messing up the signature.

Does anyone have any other solution/idea?

Thanks in advance.

eclf

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  • how many chars are in the key? – crmprogdev Aug 5 '14 at 13:32
  • Encrypted fields have a limit of 175 characters. You're keys are really longer than that? – Scott Pelak Aug 5 '14 at 18:26
  • Well, it's a RSA 1024-bit key, so it's pretty big. Thanks. – eclf Aug 6 '14 at 14:11
  • Is it possible to store the key in a file/document and access it in my code? Can I read a .pem file in my code? – eclf Aug 7 '14 at 10:57
  • Have you found a solution? – Sebastian Oct 12 '16 at 9:35

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