This chapter provides an overview of communications paths between Siebel Enterprise components and of how to configure components for secure communications. It also describes encryption technologies available for transmitting and storing Siebel application data. It includes the following topics:

• Types of Encryption
• Process of Configuring Secure Communications
• About Certificates and Key Files Used for SSL or TLS Authentication
• Installing Certificate Files
• Configuring SSL Mutual Authentication
• About Configuring Encryption for a Siebel Enterprise and SWSE
• About Key Exchange for Microsoft Crypto or RSA Encryption
• Configuring SSL or TLS Encryption for a Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server
• Configuring SSL or TLS Encryption for SWSE
• About Configuring SSL Encryption for the Siebel Management Framework
• Enabling SSL Acceleration for Web Server and Web Client Communications
• About Configuring Encryption for Web Clients
• Configuring Encryption for Mobile Web Client Synchronization
• About Data Encryption
• Configuring Encryption and Search on Encrypted Data
• Managing the Key File Using the Key Database Manager
• About Upgrading Data to a Higher Encryption Level
• Process of Upgrading Data to a Higher Encryption Level
• About the Siebel Strong Encryption Pack
• Implementing the Siebel Strong Encryption Pack
• Increasing the Encryption Level
• Reencrypting Password Parameters in the Siebns.dat File
• Security Considerations for Unicode Support