Best technical solution for encrypting DB links

Good Day Sir,
I am reaching out to find out what are the best approach to encrypt database links. Are there any set of laid out scripts that I need to use to encrypt the data in motion
Any lead or help would be greatly appreciated as I need to document it and implement it.
Thank you.

maggie wrote:
Thanks for responding. How do we encrypt if there are middle tier applications residing on the database and access the data from database? How does data in transit encryption work in such scenario? say for example JDBC connections, Oracle forms, Apex applications etc..
This is totally unknown area for me and would appreciate more leads to this. Best Regards
When you talk about "middle tier", you have to realize that as far as the database is concerned, there is no "middle". There is only the database and a client. When you have 3-tier architecture (database --> app server --> (web server)? --> end user), then the "app server" IS the client - as far as the database is concerned. Whatever that client (app server) does with what it gets from the database is beyond the control of Oracle. So Oracle has no control over whether or not the app server and the web server or end-user client process communicate in a secure manner is out of oracle's control.

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