About Certificates and Oracle Wallets

In TimesTen, digital certificates are used to establish trust between systems during a TLS connection. These certificates follow the X.509 v3 standard and bind an identity to a public key.

An Oracle Wallet stores certificates and private keys required for TLS communication. Each TimesTen component that participates in TLS must have access to a suitable wallet. For example:

• The server wallet contains both the server certificate and a trusted root certificate.
• The client wallet contains the trusted root certificate needed to validate the server certificate.

TimesTen provides the ttCreateCerts utility to create wallets and certificates for use with TLS. You can use this utility to generate self-signed certificates or prepare for certificates issued by a certificate authority.