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Dell BSAFE SSL-J 6.5 Release Advisory

Summary: Dell BSAFE SSL-J 6.5 is now available. This release integrates Dell BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.6, with Crypto-J JSAFE and JCE Software Module 6.2.5 as its underlying FIPS 140-2 provider.

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Initially published on September 12th, 2022.

Announcement

The Dell BSAFE Product Team announces the release and general availability of Dell BSAFE SSL-J 6.5. This release integrates Dell BSAFE Crypto-J 6.2.6, with Crypto-J JSAFE and JCE Software Module 6.2.5 as its underlying FIPS 140-2 provider. 

This release addresses two security issues. Refer to DSA-2022-188 and DSA-2022-208 for more details.
This release also incorporates the following changes:
  • Support for X509ExtendedKeyManager added, providing access to the new methods chooseEngineClientAlias() and chooseEngineServerAlias().
  • TLS 1.0 and 1.1 now disabled by default.
  • Weak cipher suites removed from the default cipher suite list.
  • Support for the following JDK properties is now added:
    • jdk.tls.client.cipherSuites
    • jdk.tls.server.cipherSuites
    • jdk.tls.server.protocols
    • jdk.tls.client.protocols

This release of SSL-J is also compatible and supported with BSAFE Crypto-J 7.0 with some considerations. Please review the Crypto-J 7.0 Release Notes for further details.

For BSAFE downloads, documentation and more, contact Dell Support.

Products

BSAFE SSL-J