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SSL Usage Issues

7-14 Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide

SSL Usage Issues

Consider the following issues when using SSL:

■ SSL use enables secure communication with other Oracle products, such as

Oracle Internet Directory.

■ Because SSL supports both authentication and encryption, the client/server

connection is somewhat slower than the standard Oracle Net TCP/IP transport

(using native encryption).

■ Each SSL authentication mode requires conﬁguration settings.

Note:

■ U.S. government regulations prohibit double encryption.

Accordingly, if you conﬁgure Oracle Advanced Security to use

SSL encryption and another encryption method concurrently,

the connection fails (you also cannot conﬁgure SSL

authentication concurrently with non-SSL authentication).

■ If you conﬁgure SSL encryption, you must disable non-SSL

encryption. To disable such encryption, see: "Disabling Oracle

Advanced Security Authentication" on page 9-2.