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Derby Security Features

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Derby Security Features

Derby can be deployed in a number of ways and in a number of different environments. The security needs of the Derby system are also diverse. Derby supplies or supports the following optional security mechanisms:

* User authentication

Derby verifies user names and passwords before permitting them access to the Derby 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 Derby data stored on disk.
* Validation of Certificate for Signed Jar Files
In a Java 2 environment, Derby validates certificates for classes loaded from signed jar files.

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