Communications and Data Encryption

This chapter provides an overview of communications paths between Siebel Enterprise components and 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

• About Certificates and Key Files Used for TLS Authentication

• Process of Configuring Secure Communications

• Installing Certificate Files

• Configuring TLS Mutual Authentication for SHA-2 Certificates Using EAI HTTP Transport

• About Configuring Encryption for Siebel Enterprise and Siebel Application Interface

• About Key Exchange for TLS Encryption

• Configuring TLS Encryption for Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server

• Configuring TLS Encryption for Siebel Application Interface

• Enabling SSL Acceleration for Application Interface/Enabling HTTP

• About Configuring Encryption for Web Clients

• Configuring Encryption for Mobile Web Client Synchronization

• About Data Encryption

• About Siebel Encryption

• Configuring Encryption and Search on Encrypted Data

• Encrypting Columns in a Business Component

• Managing the Key File Using the Key Database Manager

• Process of Upgrading Data to a Higher Encryption Level

• Reencrypting Password Parameters in Siebel Gateway Registry

• Security Considerations for Unicode Support

• About Encoding UI Values

Note: Application Interface server communications always use TLS 1.2 and Siebel EAI services via JDB standalone connect also use TLS 1.2.