Re: Verifying encryption is working? (Oracle 8i, Win2k server)

From: Bib Endum <gd-newsgroups_at_spamex.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:52:03 -0500
Message-ID: <PT42c.15862$JZ6.487356@news20.bellglobal.com>

"Thomas T" <T_at_T> a écrit dans le message de news:4048bce7$1_at_rutgers.edu...
> Hello everyone; I've just been playing with turning on encryption on our
> test server (Oracle 8i, Win2k server). I enabled the encryption- and it
> seemed way too easy... is there a way I can verify that encryption is
> actually on?

Best way is to ask you friendly network administrator to snoop the network with a packet dumper like ethereal and monitor the traffic between your client and your server, on port 1521 (Or other is youur sql*net traffic uses something else)

If you are on a UNIX variant, you can use snoop (man snoop) and it will also be OK, but not as user friendly.

The just fetch some rows from the database and look at the traffic with your net admin.

If it's not encrypted, you'll see readable data. If it's encrypted, you'll see gibberish.

Hope this helps Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 13:52:03 CST