What Is Oracle Wallet Manager?

You can use Oracle Wallet Manager to manage public key security credentials on Oracle clients and servers. The wallets it creates can be read by Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, and the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure.

Oracle Wallet Manager enables wallet owners to manage and edit the security credentials in their Oracle wallets. A wallet is a password-protected container used to store authentication and signing credentials, including private keys, certificates, and trusted certificates needed by SSL. You can use Oracle Wallet Manager to perform the following tasks:

  • Creating wallets

  • Generating certificate requests

  • Opening wallets to access PKI-based services

  • Saving credentials to hardware security modules, by using APIs that comply with the Public-Key Cryptography Standards #11 (PKCS #11) specification

  • Uploading wallets to (and downloading them from) an LDAP directory

  • Importing third-party PKCS #12 -format wallets

  • Exporting Oracle wallets to a third-party environment