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=== Spring Cloud Config Client
Specifically for Spring applications, Spring Cloud Config lets you:
Specifically for Spring applications, Spring Cloud Config Client lets you:
* Bind to the Config Server and initialize Spring `Environment` with remote property sources.
* Encrypt and decrypt property values (symmetric or asymmetric).

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=== Encryption and Decryption
IMPORTANT: To use the encryption and decryption features you need the full-strength JCE installed in your JVM (it is not included by default).
You can download the "J`ava Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files`" from Oracle and follow the installation instructions (essentially, you need to replace the two policy files in the JRE lib/security directory with the ones that you downloaded).
You can download the "`Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files`" from Oracle and follow the installation instructions (essentially, you need to replace the two policy files in the JRE lib/security directory with the ones that you downloaded).
If the remote property sources contain encrypted content (values starting with `{cipher}`), they are decrypted before sending to clients over HTTP.
The main advantage of this setup is that the property values need not be in plain text when they are "`at rest`" (for example, in a git repository).