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TDE wallet files removed or unreachable, when will the database detect it?

edited Feb 27, 2019 4:02AM in Database Security Products (MOSC) 1 commentAnswered

Hello,

I'm running 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 TDE databases (tablespace level) and I have a question about the behaviour of a database when for some reason the associated wallet files (cwallet.sso, ewallet.p12) are removed or unreacheable, or ENCRYPTION_WALLET_LOCATION parameter is removed from sqlnet.ora file.

The documentation says it's impossible to acces data if the wallet is closed; but if the wallets files become unreachable after database startup, when is it detected if the database is not shutdowned/restarted?

I tested renaming the two wallet files associated with a running database and I was still able to access data in encrypted tablespaces, so does it mean there's no access to wallets files once the database is started?

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