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Siebel Security Guide > Communications and Data Encryption > Process of Upgrading Data to a Higher Encryption Level >
Requirements for Upgrading to a Higher Encryption Level
This topic lists the tasks you must complete before you upgrade your data to a higher encryption level. This task is a step in Process of Upgrading Data to a Higher Encryption Level. To upgrade to a higher encryption level, the following requirements must be fulfilled:
- The Siebel Gateway Name Server and Siebel Server are installed.
- The Siebel repository has been upgraded to the schema for the current release, so that a new column has been created to store the key index for the encrypted column.
- If you created or customized columns to use the standard encryptor of Release 6.x or 7.0.x, for each encrypted column that you want to upgrade, you must create a new column to store the key index.
- If, in releases prior to release 8.0, you customized business component fields to use the standard encryptor, then verify that you define the correct properties for the columns in the database table that holds encrypted data. For further information, see Configuring Encryption and Search on Encrypted Data.
- Verify that column sizes for custom extension columns are large enough to hold the new RC2 values.
- The key database file (keyfile.bin) must already exist. (A default key file was created in the
SIEBEL_ROOT/siebsrvr/admin directory when you installed the Siebel Server.)
- If you require an encryption level greater than 56-bit RC2 encryption, then you must use the Siebel Strong Encryption Pack and you must upgrade the key database file to use a higher level of encryption. For more information on these tasks, see the following topics:
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