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.

To upgrade to a higher encryption level, the following requirements must be fulfilled:

The Siebel Gateway 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 AES 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 AES encryption, then you must upgrade the key database file to use AES encryption (192 and 256 bits). For more information, see About Siebel Encryption.