#### PAXWORD

#### Synopsis

    HELP:   Password in HEX for en/de-crypting in AES or FLAMENC mode (default: FLAMENC).
    TYPE:   STRING
    SYNTAX: PAXWORD='bin-hex'

#### Description

Password as hexadecimal character string used for en-/decryption (in WINDOWS only).

During compression the FLAMFILE is encrypted with the specified password and can only be decompressed with the same password.

FLAM uses the specified password during compression with mode adc to encrypt the compressed data and during decompression to decrypt the encrypted compressed data. The passwords used at compression and decompression must be identical or else the decompression command is rejected with an appropriate error message.

With modes other than adc or aes this parameter causes an error.

A password entered as a character string is equivalent to a hexadecimal sequence consisting of its character codes and vice versa.

Note that a given character string entered on an ASCII system is not equivalent to the same string entered on a system using EBCDIC code. Therefore, for data exchange among systems with different character codes the hexadecimal format must be used if the codes of the password characters are not available on the keyboard.

E.g. the word SECRET is encoded in ASCII as 534543524554 and in EBCDIC as E2C5C3E1C5E3. For EBCDIC the entry for SECRET as password is as follows: pax= E2C5C3E1C5E3 or pae= SECRET.

This parameter cannot be set by default.

See also parameters MODE, CRYPTOMODE, PASSWORD, PAASCII or PAEBCDIC.

Regardless of the encryption algorithm, a key should consist of at least 6 - 8 characters and it should at least contain 1 character from the following set:

- Lower case letters
- Upper case letters
- Numbers 0 - 9
- Punctuation characters

Syntax restrictions for FLAMv4 or older:

- `paxword=password`
- `pax=password`

Values

- Hexadecimal character string with a length of 2 to 128 characters

Default

- No default value can be set for `PAXWORD`.

`Valid for:`

- compression
- decompression