With Snowflake enforcing the deprecation of legacy password-based authentication, all data integration pipelines must transition to Key-Pair authentication.

Prerequisites & Architecture

OGG User: Standard OS account (typically oracle) with access to the GoldenGate installation directory.

Snowflake User : Dedicated service user (e.g., GGDEV) with appropriate roles, warehouse access and permissions (SECURITYADMIN or ACCOUNTADMIN access required to assign keys).

Dependencies : Snowflake JDBC driver and Bouncy Castle FIPS cryptographic libraries (required for decrypting PKCS#8 encrypted private keys).

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