A Credential Store Framework

A credential store is used for the secure storage of credentials. The credential store framework (CSF) API is used to access and perform operations on the credential store.

CSF provides the following capabilities:

• Enables the secure management of credentials.

• Provides an API for the storage, retrieval, and maintenance of credentials.

• Supports file-based, such as Oracle wallet, and LDAP-based credential management.

Oracle Retail RIB CSF Implementation

Oracle Retail Integration Bus protects authentication passwords using CSF and Oracle wallet. The credentials are stored and retrieved from the Oracle wallet store using APIs. Credential Store Manager is the utility which provides methods that can store and retrieve credentials from a wallet based file. Internally, this utility uses CSF API to manage the credentials.