Re: Oracle 8.0.6 and JDBC encryption

Here is a third party JDBC encryption solution you might be interested:

  http://www.idssoftware.com/

--mc

"S. Eric Asberry" <easberry_at_mail.com> wrote in message news:8m777k$9km$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hoping somebody can help me out here as I'm very confused. We
> currently have a web application working with a web server on one
> Solaris box and the database server (running Oracle 8.0.6) on another
> box. We communicate between the servlets on the web server and the
> database using the JDBC thin drivers.
>
> It has been decided that we need to secure the JDBC connection by
> encrypting. I have trolled Deja News and Oracle's sites and I seem to
> be getting conflicting information. Some things I have read seem to
> indicate that *IF* you are using Oracle 8.1.6 and *IF* you use the OCI
> JDBC drivers instead of the thin client and *IF* you install something
> called "Advanced Networking Option" and tweak things appropriately, you
> can get an encrypted JDBC connection.
>
> But I'm not sure if this applies to Oracle 8.0.6 (because of various
> other application dependencies we are stuck with 8.0.6 for now). Also,
> even for 8.1.6, I saw some messages in metalink
> (http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?
> p_database_id=FOR&p_id=93064.999) that seemed to indicate that it was
> broken and "might" be fixed for 8.1.7. But it's not clear to me if it
> was something that "used" to work and got broken, or if it has never
> been supported. I've also seen some older posts in dejanews that say
> JDBC isn't encrypted and "never will" be.
>
> I'm still pretty much an Oracle neophyte so any pointers to
> comprehensive documentation, FAQs etc. which specifically cover using
> JDBC encryption would be greatly appreciated. I have tried trolling
> through various Oracle documentation to unravel this but I keep finding
> things like "see such and such guide" which then contains 15 or 20
> words on the subject and refers me to yet another doc, which I then
> can't find.
>
> Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
>
> Eric
>
>
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Received on Wed Aug 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT