Re: Question about JSSE on Midrange boxes

[Mark Murphy <jmarkmurphy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bouncy Castle https://www.bouncycastle.org/ provides cryptography for Java,
and potentially supports some ciphers in older Java version that are
otherwise unavailable.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> James,
>
> I'm not 100% sure but V6 may be unavailable.
> There's a wee bit of hope with 7.1 but you have to manually add support,
> even after you get to the right level.
>
> 7.1 instructions (which actually mention JSSE):
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-
> system-ssl-ibmi/index.html
>
> word of doom about 6.1 (which also mentions capability enhanced in 7.1).
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020876
>
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> From:   "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Java 400 List <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   10/16/2017 02:45 PM
> Subject:        Question about JSSE on Midrange boxes
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> Does anybody here know where JSSE on Midrange boxes gets its ciphers?
>
> I have reason to believe that a Tomcat server running on a V6 box was
> claiming to support a couple of ECDHE ciphers, and yet ran into problems
> when a browser actually asked for them, resulting in the browser
> rejecting the server with extreme prejudice.
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