Proxy Configuration Encryption Utility

You can use the Proxy Configuration Encryption utility to encrypt the username and/or password that you provide to the proxy environment variable qualys_https_proxy or https_proxy.

The string-util utility is included in the Cloud Agent installation package. To access it, you must install or extract the Cloud Agent installation package.

If you encrypt a system's credentials using string-util, the encryption setting is applied to all systems that have the same credentials.

Provide the encrypted user name and password to your proxy environment variable in .yml file.

qualys_https_proxy=https://[<#encrypted_username>:<#encrypted_password>@]<host>[:<port>]

The # delimiter indicates to the Cloud Agent that the username and password are encrypted. Not including the # indicates that the user name and password are in plain text format.

For example (Encrypting password):

qualys_https_proxy=https://sys_account:#sRpSHQP582a1+gaJwHOm3g==@proxy.myco.com:8080

For example (Encrypting username and password):

qualys_https_proxy=https://#uWpsHMSY932b2+fdcH723d==:#sRpSHQP582a1+gaJwHOm3g==@proxy.myco.com:8080