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25.07.18

RSA BSAFE

Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes

This document summarizes the features of RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 (Cert-J). It

outlines the new features, platform information, and resolved and known issues.

Note: All Cert-J APIs are deprecated. The APIs are available for use, and will

be removed at some future time. RSA recommends replacing the Cert-J APIs

with the public JCE API and the Certificate API in Crypto-J.

For details of the Cert-J End of Primary Support dates, see the Product Version Life

Cycle Web site at

https://community.rsa.com/docs/DOC-73366.

Contents:

New Features ................................................................................................... 2

Changes ............................................................................................................ 2

Related Products .............................................................................................. 2

FIPS 140-2 Status ............................................................................................ 3

Operating Environment Information .............................................................. 4

Primary Operating Environments ............................................................ 4

Secondary Operating Environments ...................................................... 8

Tested JDK Update Versions ................................................................ 12

Virtualized Environments ....................................................................... 13

Discontinued Environments ................................................................... 13

Interoperability ................................................................................................ 14

Enhancements and Resolved Issues .......................................................... 15

Known Issues ................................................................................................. 15

Documentation ............................................................................................... 16

Support and Service ...................................................................................... 17

Summary of content (17 pages)

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Release Notes 25.07.18 RSA BSAFE® Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes This document summarizes the features of RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 (Cert-J). It outlines the new features, platform information, and resolved and known issues. Note: All Cert-J APIs are deprecated. The APIs are available for use, and will be removed at some future time. RSA recommends replacing the Cert-J APIs with the public JCE API and the Certificate API in Crypto-J.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes New Features This release of Cert-J is designed to provide updated platform support. Changes This release of Cert-J is designed to include the following changes: • All Cert-J APIs are deprecated. The APIs are available for use, and will be removed at some future time. RSA recommends replacing the Cert-J APIs with the public JCE API and the Certificate API in Crypto-J. • Fixes for specific issues. For more information, see Enhancements and Resolved Issues.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes FIPS 140-2 Status FIPS 140-2 (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-2 - Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules) details the United States Government requirements for cryptographic modules. For more information about the FIPS 140-2 standard and validation program, see the FIPS 140-2 page on the NIST Web site at https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validationprogram/standards.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Operating Environment Information Operating environment support for Cert-J is separated into two categories: • Primary Operating Environments: Cert-J is designed and tested to support these operating environments at the time of release • Secondary Operating Environments: these operating environments are not tested and not provided with this release, but can be requested through RSA Customer Support.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Table 1 Primary Operating Environment Information (continued) Operating System CPU Architecture CPU Size x86_64 64-bit Compiler Version CentOS™ Project CentOS 6.9 IBM JDK 8.0 OpenJDK 8.u Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.0 CentOS 7 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 OpenJDK 8.u Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.0 FreeBSD® Foundation FreeBSD 10.3 x86_64 64-bit OpenJDK 8.u FreeBSD 11.x x86_64 64-bit OpenJDK 8.u ARM® v7 32-bit Android JDK 7.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Table 1 Primary Operating Environment Information (continued) CPU Architecture CPU Size Compiler Version Itanium® 2 32-bit HP JDK 8.0 Itanium 2 64-bit HP JDK 8.0 PowerPC® 32-bit IBM JDK 8.0 PowerPC 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 PowerPC 32-bit IBM JDK 8.0 PowerPC 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 OpenJDK 8u Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.0 x86 32-bit Oracle JRockit 6.0 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK. 8.0 Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Table 1 Primary Operating Environment Information (continued) CPU Architecture CPU Size Windows Server 2012 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.0 Windows Server 2012 R2 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.0 Windows Server 2016 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 Oracle JDK 8.0, 9.0.1 Oracle JRockit 6.0 SPARC® v9 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 Oracle JDK 8.0 Oracle JRockit 6.0 x86_64 64-bit Oracle JDK 8.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Secondary Operating Environments The following table lists the secondary operating environments which are not tested and not provided with this release, but can be requested through RSA Customer Support. Table 2 Secondary Operating Environment Information Operating System CPU Architecture CPU Size JVM x86 32-bit Apple JDK 6.0, 7.0 x86_64 64-bit Apple JDK 6.0, 7.0 x86 32-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1 OpenJDK 7u Oracle JDK 7.0, 9.01 (EA) x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK 7.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Table 2 Secondary Operating Environment Information (continued) CPU Architecture CPU Size JVM PowerPC 32-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 8.0 PowerPC 64-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 8.0 PowerPC 32-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1 PowerPC 64-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1 PowerPC 32-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1 PowerPC 64-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1 x86 32-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 OpenJDK 7u, 8u Oracle JDK 7.0, 8.0 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 OpenJDK 7u, 8u Oracle JDK 7.0, 8.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Table 2 Secondary Operating Environment Information (continued) CPU Architecture CPU Size x86 32-bit IBM JDK.7.0, 7.1 Oracle JDK 7.0, 9.0.1 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK.7.0, 7.1 Oracle JDK 7.0 Windows Server 2012 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK.7.0, 7.1 Oracle JDK 7.0, 9.0.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK.7.0, 7.1 Oracle JDK 7.0 Windows Server 2016 x86_64 64-bit IBM JDK.7.0, 7.1 Oracle JDK 7.0 SPARC v8+ 32-bit Oracle JDK 7.0, 8.0, 9.0.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Table 2 Secondary Operating Environment Information (continued) Operating System CPU Architecture CPU Size x86_64 64-bit JVM Red Hat (Continued) Enterprise Linux 7 IBM JDK 7.0, 7.1 OpenJDK 7u Oracle JDK 7.0 1 Early Adopter 2No Native support, due to lack of support in Crypto-C ME 4.1/MES 4.1. Your RSA software contract may not grant you the right to develop applications on all of the supported platforms.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Tested JDK Update Versions The following table lists the supported primary platforms and operating systems, with the tested JDK update version. Table 3 Tested JDK Update Versions Operating System CPU Compiler Version Apple OS X 10.6+ All Apple JDK 1.8.0_121-b13 Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Server 32-bit Oracle JDK 1.8.0_74 64-bit IBM JDK 8.0 R28_20160816_1459_B315341 OpenJDK 1.7.0_65-b32 Oracle JDK 1.7.0_25 Oracle JDK 9.0.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Virtualized Environments This release of Cert-J has been tested on virtual machines on VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 6.x (ESXi), and Microsoft Hyper-V™ (Hyper-V) hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2. Cert-J can be run in a virtualized environment on the supported Guest Operating Systems listed in the following table.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Interoperability Note: Interoperability was not specifically tested for this release of Cert-J. While it is expected that the versions of the vendor products listed below will work with this release of Cert-J, interoperability is not guaranteed. Table 5 Vendor product Interoperability Vendor Product Feature Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) RSA Certificate Manager 6.9 Build 558 Request certificate, retrieve certificate, revoke certificate, key update.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes The following table lists the platform information for tested Application Servers. Table 6 Application Server Interoperability Platforms Application Server Windows Server 2012 R2, x86_64 Solaris 11, SPARC V8+ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, x86_64 IBM WebSphere® Application Server 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5 Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1, 12c, 12cR2 Red Hat JBoss® EAP 6.x, 7.x Red Hat JBoss WildFly® AS 8.2, 9.0.x, 10.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes Documentation The Cert-J documentation suite includes: 16 • This document, the RSA BSAFE Cert-J Release Notes, in Portable Document Format (PDF), with the latest information on Cert-J. • RSA BSAFE Cert-J Installation Guide, in PDF, with instructions on how to install and build Cert-J.
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RSA BSAFE Cert-J 6.2.4 Release Notes • • The following Javadocs, in HTML format, which provide Java API reference information: • RSA BSAFE Cert-J Javadoc • RSA BSAFE JsafeJCE Javadoc • RSA BSAFE Jsafe Javadoc • RSA BSAFE Tools Javadoc. RSA Security Concepts, in PDF, which provides an overview of the fundamentals of cryptography and security related issues. Documentation for this release and for previous releases of Cert-J are available from RSA Link.