Oracle Encryption

To Anyone who may be of help...

I've just been thrown into this project 2 or 3 days ago, and I'm totally new to oracle, so please excuse my dumb questions. We have an Oracle 7.3.4 server running on a unix server and am going to have a front end in excel on WIN 95 machines. I need to make sure that transactions back and forth are encrypted. I somewhat understand how it works, but am still confused. I'm using SQLNet to communicate. I've heard that SQLNet itself encrypts the data. Is this true and/or do i have to activate it or feed it encryption keys? Do I need ANO for this part? I also know that Kerberos is going to be put into use sometime later. I understand that ANO needs to be installed in order to use Kerberos, but I also keep on seeing references to RSA and DES. Are these some equivalents to Kerberos? I'm not sure what they are.

Thanks in advance

Arturo Perez
aperez_at_ccs.neu.edu

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