About Using Ssl - Oracle Database B10772-01 Administrator's Manual

About Using SSL

Oracle Advanced Security supports authentication by using digital certificates over
SSL in addition to the native encryption and data integrity capabilities of these
protocols.
By using Oracle Advanced Security SSL functionality to secure communications
between clients and servers, you can
You can use SSL features by themselves or in combination with other authentication
methods supported by Oracle Advanced Security. For example, you can use the
encryption provided by SSL in combination with the authentication provided by
Kerberos. SSL supports any of the following authentication modes:
Use SSL to encrypt the connection between clients and servers
Authenticate any client or server, such as Oracle Application Server 10g, to any
Oracle database server that is configured to communicate over SSL
Only the server authenticates itself to the client
Both client and server authenticate themselves to each other
Neither the client nor the server authenticates itself to the other, thus using the
SSL encryption feature by itself
See Also:
The SSL Protocol, Version 3.0, published by the Internet
Engineering Task Force, for a more detailed discussion of SSL
Chapter 1, "Introduction to Oracle Advanced
more information about authentication methods
SSL and TLS in an Oracle Environment
Configuring Secure Sockets Layer Authentication 7-3
Security", for