SSL Setup: Introduction

The need to protect your data goes beyond just protecting the source. You must also make sure that when your data is traveling to and from the LDAP server it cannot be deciphered on the network wire by anyone.

Oracle Internet Directory supports SSL version 2.0 and 3.0. This section introduces you to some basic SSL concepts and administrative considerations that will be helpful to you when you setup OID to securely move your data over the internet wire using SSL.