Setting up encryption

The process of encryption/decryption of data begins on the Clinical Group form. Follow these steps to generate a public/private key pair.

On the second tab of the Clinical Group form (Study Export), make sure you have entered a Study Participant ID to enable the Generate Keys button.

Click Generate Keys to create a public/private 1024-bit encryption key pair.

Do one of the following:

Click Save Public Key to Disk to generate a text file that you can use to share the public key with whoever will be importing your data.

Highlight the public key, copy it, and then paste it into an e-mail message or other word processing program for sharing.

Click OK to save the keys in the Clinical Group form.

If you try to modify previously created keys you will be warned before saving the record since an inadvertent change will destroy the utility of the paired keys.