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Encrypting Credit Card Data with RC2 Encryption

Credit card information is encrypted with RC2 encryption technology from RSA. The encrypted fields used in Siebel eSales are shown in Table 6.

CAUTION:  Make sure that you back up the key file regularly. If the key file is lost, you cannot retrieve credit card data.

NOTE:  If you are upgrading to the current version of Siebel Business Applications from version 7.0.x or earlier, you must convert Oracle's proprietary encryption for these fields to RC2 encryption. To do this you must run an encryption upgrade script after the main upgrade script but before the Unicode upgrade.

For general information about RSA encryption, see Siebel Security Guide. For more information about running the upgrade script, see Siebel Database Upgrade Guide for the operating system you are using.