Ray, You may want to trace the sqlnet packets and see whether they are encrypted or not. Without ASO, you may see the SQLtext and data (in fixed with hex as well as ascii) format. Set the sqlnet.ora parameter trace_level_client=support/16 to see the encrypted(!) data transfer . -Gopal On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > besides tcpdump, is there a way to confirm a connection is being > encrypted via ssl? anything in v$session? Thanks. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l