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Upgrade Issues for Data Encryption

This topic describes upgrade issues for data encryption to consider when upgrading from a previous release of Siebel Business Applications to the 8.0 release.

Prior to release 8.0, application developers enabled data encryption by specifying values for business component field user properties. As of release 8.0, application developers enable data encryption by encrypting columns in database tables. All fields in the encrypted columns are encrypted.

The upgrade process automatically migrates business component field user properties to database table column properties so that all fields in the encrypted column are encrypted.

NOTE:  A requirement for data encryption to work in release 8.0 is that the encrypted column and the key index column reside in the same database table.

For information on upgrading data encrypted using the standard encryptor, which is no longer supported, to 56-bit RC2 encryption, see About Upgrading Data to a Higher Encryption Level.

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