NETENCRYPT System Option

Specifies whether client/server data transfers are encrypted.

Client:	Optional
Server:	Optional
Valid in:	Configuration file, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window, SAS invocation, SAS/CONNECT spawner command line
Category:	Communications: Networking and Encryption
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	Communications
Default:	NONETENCRYPT
Operating environment:	UNIX, Windows, z/OS
See:	NETENCRYPTALGORITHM
Example:	SAS/SECURE for SAS/CONNECT: Example

Syntax

Syntax Description

Details

Syntax

NETENCRYPT | NONETENCRYPT

Syntax Description

NETENCRYPT

specifies that encryption is required.

NONETENCRYPT

specifies that encryption is not required, but is optional.

Details

The default for this option specifies that encryption is used if the NETENCRYPTALGORITHM option is set and if both the client and the server are capable of encryption. If encryption algorithms are specified but either the client or the server is incapable of encryption, then encryption is not performed.

Encryption might not be supported at the client or at the server in these situations:

You are using a release of SAS (prior to SAS 8) that does not support encryption.
Your site (the client or the server) does not have a security software product installed.
You specified encryption algorithms that are incompatible in SAS sessions on the client and the server.