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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

Overview of this book

Does your database look complicated? Are you finding it difficult to interact with it? Database interaction is a part of the daily routine for all database professionals. Using Oracle Utilities the user can benefit from improved maintenance windows, optimized backups, faster data transfers, and more reliable security and in general can do more with the same time and resources.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

The Oracle Wallet Manager


Oracle Wallet Manager is a password protected stand-alone Java application tool used to maintain security credentials and store SSL related information such as authentication and signing credentials, private keys, certificates, and trusted certificates.

OWM uses Public Key Cryptographic Standards(PKCS) #12 specification for the Wallet format and PKCS #10 for certificate requests.

Oracle Wallet Manager stores X.509 v3 certificates and private keys in industry-standard PKCS #12 formats, and generates certificate requests according to the PKCS #10 specification. This makes the Oracle Wallet structure interoperable with supported third party PKI applications, and provides Wallet portability across operating systems. Additionally, Oracle Wallet Manager Wallets can be enabled to store credentials on hardware security modules that use APIs compliant with the PKCS #11 specification.

The OWM creates Wallets, generates certificate requests, accesses Public Key interface-based...