PeopleSoft Encryption Technology Features

You can encrypt any data used in your application by invoking PeopleCode to apply your preferred encryption algorithms. You can obtain these algorithms from various vendors' cryptographic libraries, using the capabilities you want from each library.

The features of PeopleSoft Encryption Technology include:

• Access to a robust set of algorithms (symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, password-based encryption, hashes, MACs, signatures, enveloping, encoding, and writing/processing secured messages).

• The ability to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify fields in a database.

• The ability to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify external files.

• A secure keystore for encryption keys of widely varying types.

• The ability to convert data from one encryption scheme to another.