Encrypting distributed copy of Plastic Cloud Database

[Meceka]

Hi. We have a laptop that we use out-of-office and also in expo's and its not secure for our source code. 
We delete the Repository folder for such events and re-create it afterwards with Plastic SCM, but I just realized that local distributed copy of PlasticSCM doesn't have encryption applied, so it can be easily used to recreate the source code.

I mean the database thats in this directory C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\server\jet

Is there a way to encrypt this local copy just like it's done in the cloud?

Thanks,
Mehmet

[Héber]

Hi Mehmet,

Yes, you can set your local server to use encryption on the server side. You would need to add the cryptedservers.conf file to your server folder under "C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\server"  and the key. Then, you would have to share that key with all the machines you want to grant access to the repo. It is added in the client folder, where all the client configuration files are, under "C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\plastic4".  

You can check the following link to see how to do it:

http://blog.plasticscm.com/2015/02/how-to-setup-encrypted-server.html

Just be aware that you probably have to set local instead of localhost as the server name in the cyptedservers.conf, as it is how the local server created with cloud edition is named. For example, change:

EncryptServerIP:8087 carlosLocal.key  

To:

local:8087 mehmetkey.key

Best regards,

Héber.