Re: V7R1 Updated SSL Ciphers RFE Link please vote!

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

If that's the case, IBM should just say it and be done with it.

I have a customer looking into the "free" OS upgrade now.  They've agreed
to share the experience.  But, they have their machine hosted on the other
side of the US so it may not be the everyday case.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhaps there really are reasons some of the newer ciphers will not work
> on 7.1.  For example
>
> This is just a total off the wall WAG:
> http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs050614-story01.html
> - Support for the Vector Scalar eXtension (VSX) capability in Power8,
> which provides support for IEEE-conforming vector and scalar binary
> floating point operations
>
> This may be an important factor in 7.2's capability:
> http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/
> rzain/rzainwhatnew.htm
> The ability to configure multiple certificates for a secure environment
> was added. Multiple Certificate Selection allows a secure environment to
> enable Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) certificates
> while still allowing RSA certificates.
>
> Granted, I'm still at that level where I confuse certificates and ciphers
> and exactly what is related and what is not.
>
> Rob Berendt
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