About Encryption of Siebel Gateway Password Parameters

The Siebel Gateway registry stores the information required by the gateway. This includes operational and connectivity information as well as configuration information for the Siebel Enterprise and Siebel Servers. If a gateway configuration parameter requires a password value, then the Siebel encryptor writes the password to the Siebel Gateway registry in encrypted format.

Note: End user passwords are not specified as parameter values for the gateway and are not stored in the Siebel Gateway registry.

In the current release, passwords in the Siebel Gateway registry are encrypted using the AES algorithm. The encryptor generates the encrypted password using an encryption key that is unique to each parameter. The encryption key itself is generated based on repository information.

If you choose, you can increase the encryption key length for encrypting passwords. If you do increase the encryption key length for encrypted passwords in the Siebel Gateway registry, then the passwords have to be encrypted again using the new key. For more information, see Running the Encryption Upgrade Utility.

For a list of some of the password parameters that are encrypted in the Siebel Gateway registry, and for information on how to reencrypt them, see Reencrypting Password Parameters in Siebel Gateway Registry.