@Salil

deleted all instances, created the access control policy for the exposed column.   But the varchar column still can be viewed in plain text; i.e. it is not encrypted.   I checked the systemout.log file, seems the CustomCipher class is called; saw the "encrypting" and "decrypting" output.   Any advise on what could be wrong?   How can i check super.encrypt is called?

thanks.

here is the CustomCipher.java

package com.fepoc;

import com.pega.pegarules.exec.internal.util.crypto.PRCipherBase;

public class CustomCipher extends com.pega.pegarules.exec.internal.util.crypto.PRCipherBase {

private static final byte[] a = {

(byte)0x9a, (byte)0x86, (byte)0x5b, (byte)0xe1, (byte)0x64, (byte)0xf7,

(byte)0x69, (byte)0xd4, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x96, (byte)0x04, (byte)0x68,

(byte)0xff, (byte)0xd1, (byte)0x8e, (byte)0xed,

};

private static final byte[] b = null;

private static final String c = "************";

public CustomCipher() {

init(c, a, b);

}

public byte[] encrypt(byte[] aInput) {

System.out.println("encrypting");

return super.encrypt(aInput);

}

public byte[] decrypt(byte[] aInput) {

System.out.println("decrypting");

return super.decrypt(aInput);

}

}