Re: Q:oracle security

In article <3hnkp2$dq1_at_bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>, soerense_at_winifred.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (RueDIger Soerensen) writes:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I posted this before, but it didn't seem to get through...
>
> we are planning to buy a major database system, preferably Oracle 7.x.
> It will be used mainly in education, but also for some work here.
> One of the applications is the maintenance of a user database which
> contains personal data.
> My question is:
> data is entered on a client and sent to the host via TCP/IP (ethernet)
> is it possible to make this transport secure (maybe by encoding the data)?
> Is Oracle capable of doing some sort of encryption?
>
> Any hints are greatly appreciated....

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With SQL*Net V2.??? you can encryt the username/password between the client and server. This comes standard with Oracle 7

However, if you want to encryt all datagrams between the client and server, you wil need the Secure Network option that sits on top of SQL*Net V2 from Oracle. From what I hear, there is negligible overheads with the additional processing.

Hope that helps.

ta
tony

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