Derby and Security

Derby and Security can be deployed in a number of ways and in a number of different environments. The security needs of the system are also diverse. User authenticationdefinition AuthenticationdefinitionDisk encryptionEncrypting databases

supplies or supports the following optional security mechanisms:

User authentication
verifies user names and passwords before permitting them access to the system.
User authorization
A means of granting specific users permission to read a database or to write to a database.
Disk encryption
A means of encrypting data stored on disk.
Validation of Certificate for Signed Jar Files
In a Java 2 environment, validates certificates for classes loaded from signed jar files.
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