01150: Encryption issue with Solaris and BBJ

Title:

Encryption issue with Solaris and BBJ

Description:

The initial security.provider that Sun provides with java is not compatible with the default encryption that we use. This affects both the Solaris and Sun-Intel port of BBj. 

The following changes are required to the java.security file located in ..jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/security/security.policy file. Root access is required and temporarily give the file write permissions. 

The list of security providers will look similar to: 

security.provider.1=sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11${java.home}/lib/security/sunpkcs11-solaris.cfg 
security.provider.2=sun.security.provider.Sun 
security.provider.3=sun.security.rsa.SunRsaSign 
security.provider.4=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider 
security.provider.5=com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE 
security.provider.6=sun.security.jgss.SunProvider 
security.provider.7=com.sun.security.sasl.Provider 
security.provider.8=org.jcp.xml.dsig.internal.dom.XMLDSigRI 
security.provider.9=sun.security.smartcardio.SunPCSCkcs11-solaris.cfg 

The default encryption depends on the second security provider, not the first. Reorder this list moving the first entry to the last: 

security.provider.1=sun.security.provider.Sun 
security.provider.2=sun.security.rsa.SunRsaSign 
security.provider.3=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider 
security.provider.4=com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE 
security.provider.5=sun.security.jgss.SunProvider 
security.provider.6=com.sun.security.sasl.Provider 
security.provider.7=org.jcp.xml.dsig.internal.dom.XMLDSigRI 
security.provider.8=sun.security.smartcardio.SunPCSCkcs11-solaris.cfg 
security.provider.9=sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11${java.home}/lib/security/sunpkcs11-solaris.cfg 

Once this is complete, change the permissions of the file back to: 

–r–r–r 

and restart BBjServices. 

The default encryption should now work properly. 

Last Modified: 10/12/2007 Product: BBj Operating System: Solaris

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