Chapter 8. Transparent Data Encryption

In this chapter, we will cover the following tasks:

  • Configuring a keystore location in sqlnet.ora
  • Creating and opening the keystore
  • Setting a master encryption key in a software keystore
  • Column encryption - adding a new encrypted column to a table
  • Column encryption - creating a new table that has encrypted column(s)
  • Using salt and MAC
  • Column encryption - encrypting the existing column
  • Autologin keystore
  • Encrypting tablespace
  • Rekeying
  • Backup and recovery

Introduction

Encryption is a very important security mechanism used to enforce confidentiality of data. There are two types of encryption that can be used in the Oracle Database. The first type is application-based encryption, which is implemented using the DBMS_CRYPTO ...

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