Creating a Key File and Password File
With PowerShell, we can generate a 256-bit AES encryption key:
Creating the AES.key
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$KeyFile = “C:\o365\AES.key” $Key = New–Object Byte[] 32 # You can use 16, 24, or 32 for AES [Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider]::Create().GetBytes($Key) $Key | out–file $KeyFile |
Creating the password file
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$PasswordFile = “Password.txt” $KeyFile = “AES.key” $Key = Get–Content $KeyFile $Password = “P@ssword1” | ConvertTo–SecureString –AsPlainText –Force $Password | ConvertFrom–SecureString –key $Key | Out–File $PasswordFile |
Using the key and password file
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$User = “username”$PasswordFile = “c:\o365\Password.txt”$KeyFile = “c:\o365\AES.key”$key = Get–Content $KeyFile$MyCredential = New–Object –TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ` –ArgumentList $User, (Get–Content $PasswordFile | ConvertTo–SecureString –Key $key) |
