Re: Cryptographic algorithm support by OS level

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yowsie.  Cryptography is confusig enough without adding this to the mix!  Here's hoping it's finally resolved!

(That sounds like another software company, not like IBM, by the way.)
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Dennis
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"Vern Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To all who might need this information - turns out that before V5R4, 
> licensed product 5722-AC3 was required to use the encryption
> algorithms. 
> Apparently the export restriction was lifted, and V5R4 and later have 
> the algorithms in the operating system - this is why 57xx-AC3 was 
> pulled, I suppose.
>
> Now another wrinkle - we DO have AC3 on our V5R1 box - yet the extra 
> algorithms did not show up. Turns out there was a problem where the MI 
> stuff that AC3 modified/added could get lost, usually when moving from 
> one machine to another.
>
> One solution is to SAVLICPGM/DLTLICPGM/RSTLICPGM - the note I saw said 
> that the self-certificates had to be rebuilt.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 10/2/2011 9:33 AM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
> > Hi, Vern:
> >
> > I compiled and ran your program on V5R2 and the results are the same
> as
> > what you show for V5R1.
> >
> > Mark S. Waterbury
> >
> >   >  On 10/1/2011 12:17 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Scott Klement has some code that displays which algorithms are
> supported
> > > on the release you are running. At V5R1, there are only 4 of them
> (MAC,
> > > MD5, SHA-1, and DES (two-way).
> > >
> > > At V5R3 there are 10 more.
> > >
> > > I need to know what the algorithms are at V5R2 - maybe it's
> documented
> > > somewhere, I looked in MTU - nothing there. I don't have the MI docs
> for
> > > CIPHER at V5R2, InfoCenter doesn't have them anywhere that're
> obvious to me.
> > > Here is an amended version of Scott's code, usable at V5R1 and on -
> his
> > > takes advantage of LIKEDS in data structure subfields, which wasn't
> > > available that far back.
> > >
> > > Maybe someone still has a V5R2 system/partition - if so, please
> compile
> > > and run this code and let me know the results.
> > >
> > > Much appreciated!
> > > Vern
> > > ...(snip)...
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