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Create TDE for multiple databases on the same windows host

edited Dec 20, 2011 3:47AM in Database Security Products (MOSC) 1 commentAnswered
Dear Experts,Comments from one of my customer:
As referring to Oracle Advanced Security Transparent Data Encryption Best Practices page 9 Multiple databases on the same host section, it states:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/security/twp-transparent-data-encryption-bes-130696.pdf

If there are multiple Oracle Databases installed on the same server, they must access their own individual TDE wallet. Sharing the same wallet between independent instances is not supported and can potentially lead to a loss of the encrypted data.
If the databases share the same ORACLE_HOME, they also share the same sqlnet.ora file in $TNS_ADMIN. In order to access their individual wallet, the DIRECTORY entry for the ENCRYPTION_WALLET_LOCATION needs to point each database to its own wallet location:

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