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The CoSort product's SortCL tool can protect data in files -- down to the field level -- with any encryption library.


AES-256 Field Function
To satisfy the NSA's Suite B-level security expectations, CoSort delivers the best -- a 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) implementation in SortCL that you can use with your own pass phrases (encryption keys). The encrypted output field ciphertext uses printable characters for processing and display.

Pass phrases are used to generate keys for encryption and decryption of the field data. Therefore, the only one who can decrypt that data is the person possessing the right library and pass phrase. CoSort can help you secure the encryption key, and work with third-party key management systems.


Custom Encryption Functions
Support for custom, field-level transformations in CoSort's SortCL tool also means that you can specify your own encryption keys, alternate encryption library, or other field protection functions -- anywhere throughout your file descriptions. So, if you prefer Twofish, 3DES, or any other algorithm, use it.


Other Protection Functions
In addition to encryption, SortCL supports the use of field-level de-identification routines, bit-level manipulation and other anonymizing masking functions, lookup pseudonymization, conditional value filtering and wholesale field redaction.

To improve protection and verify compliance with privacy regulations, CoSort users can also specify production of a query-ready audit trial. The XML log records every SortCL job script, including paths and names of the encryption libraries you used, and the protection function you applied to each field.