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User guide v3.x

Encryption Tool allows you to encrypt several documents and upload them to the OpenKM repository, as well as download and decrypt them locally.

Choose the File / Configuration menu option to show the configuration popup.

The available configuration parameters are:

Property Type Description
Language Select User interface language.
User String User ID for accessing OpenKM.
user1
Password String The password of the user.
pass1
Host String OpenKM URL.
http://localhost:8080/openkm/

 To accept changes to configuration parameters, click the Accept button.

  1. Select one or more documents and drag and drop them onto the main application window.
  2. Go to the “File” menu and select the “Encrypt and upload” option.
  3. Enter the password required to encrypt.
  4. Select the path within OpenKM to upload the encrypted documents.
  1. Go to the “File” menu and select the “Download and decrypt” option.

  2. Search and select one or more encrypted documents from the OpenKM repository.

  3. Enter the password required to decrypt the document.

  4. The decrypted documents are in the path:

    C:\Users\[you_user]\Documents\OpenKM\OKMEncryption\decrypt

  1. Go to the “File” menu and select the “Encrypt a file in OpenKM” or “Decrypt a file in OpenKM” option.
  2. Search and select one or more documents from the OpenKM repository.
  3. Enter the password required to encrypt or decrypt.

In My Documents/OpenKM there is a log file called OKMEncryption.log with a complete log trace.