Cipher Tool is not encrypting password - wso2

Question

I am using WSO2 Integration Studio 8.1.0 on Windows 10 and I have Ant installed (Apache Ant 1.10.12) and added the ANT bin directory (ANT_HOME) to the path system variable.
In my deployment.toml file which is located in Integration_Studio_Home\runtime\microesb\conf.
I added the following under the secrets header
[secrets]
admin_password = "adminUserPassword"
Then opened cmd and navigated to Integration_Studio_Home\runtime\microesb\bin.
Then executed ciphertool.bat -Dconfigure
Result :
.\wso2\lib\Saxon-HE-9.5.1-8.jar
Using CARBON_HOME: C:\WSO2\INTEGR~1\runtime\microesb\bin\..
Using JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.12
Encrypting using Internal KeyStore.
{type: JKS, alias: wso2carbon, path: repository/resources/security/wso2carbon.jks}
[Please Enter Internal KeyStore Password of Carbon Server : ]
Internal KeyStore of Carbon Server is initialized Successfully
Secret Configurations are written to the property file successfully
But when I open deployment.toml I find that the password under the secrets section is not encrypted!

Answer 1

You need to define the secret value between square brackets []. In your case, it should be as follows,
[secrets]
admin_password = "[adminUserPassword]"
Furthermore, if you are using the embedded MI runtime, you can use the Integration Studio itself to encrypt the secrets. Have a look at Encrypt static (embedded) server secrets
For more info check,
Defining secrets - https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/install-and-setup/setup/mi-setup/security/encrypting_plain_text/#static-secrets