Alfresco ECM Scores Encryption Plug-in

February 2nd, 2007: Alfresco Software’s open source enterprise content management solution has received a boost this week in the form of an encryption plug-in to secure its collaborative workspace.

Developed by IDEALX, the publisher of OpenTrust, the Java plug-in fully integrates with Alfresco and is natively based on the Alfresco aspect-oriented rules and actions infrastructure. The solution applies the cypher rule to a specific workspace, and after setting the associated key the plug-in enables a document to be encrypted in PKCS#5 prior to upload.

The encrypted document will remain in the original workspace until the next user has decrypted the document in their private workspace using the correct key. Called IDX-eDoc and published under the Mozilla Public Licence 1.1, the plug-in is one of the components making up OpenTrust, IDEALX's Open Source global security suite.

"Alfresco was designed to be as simple to use as a shared drive with the robustness, security and auditing of a full Enterprise Content Management Suite," said Alfresco Software CEO John Powell. "This plug-in allows users to simply create highly secure workspaces building on the existing HTTPS, Kerberos authentication, Service Oriented Auditing and extensible permission framework of Alfresco.

“This is a great example of the power and innovation of the open source model where developers can add capabilities due to the access they have to source code and the publicly available knowledge on the project," he added.

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