D-Secure Key Practices

To ensure secure distribution, Oracle Food and Beverage mandates that users divide knowledge of a specific encryption key among two or three people. Users should establish dual control of keys so that it requires two to three people, each knowing only his or her part of the key, to reconstruct the entire key.

A site’s management procedures must require the prevention of unauthorized substitution of keys. Furthermore, a site’s management procedures must require the replacement of known or suspected compromised keys.