Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Getting Started:
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For cryptographic data that you work with in the Progress 4GL and that is used in symmetric-key cryptography, PBE, message digests, and MACs, the 4GL provides additional tools to manipulate this data for transport, including:

The GET-BYTE and PUT-BYTE functions to help maintain byte-endian order.
The BASE64-ENCODE and BASE64-DECODE functions to convert between binary and character representations of machine-level.

For more information on the storage and transport of cryptographic data managed in the Progress 4GL, see the sections on cryptography in OpenEdge Development: Programming Interfaces .

For cryptographic data used in public-key cryptography, including especially keys and digital certificates, OpenEdge provides or supports third-party tools to manage this data. For more information, see Chapter 6, "Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)," in this manual, and the sections on managing OpenEdge key and certificate stores in OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration .