Marvin, thanks for confirming!

Does this warrant a note in the wiki under our LDAP section?

Cheers,
Scott

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Marvin Addison <[email protected]>wrote:

> > Check down under "Strong Versus Unlimited Strength."  There's some issues
> > with import controls. Note, the document is referring specifically to JDK
> > 1.4, so I don't know if its the same for newer versions.
>
> It applies to the 1.5 JRE and 1.6 JDK I just checked.  For reference,
> the following ciphers are supported by default:
>
> // Some countries have import limits on crypto strength. This policy
> file is worldwide importable.
> grant {
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission "DES", 64;
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission "DESede", *;
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission "RC2", 128,
>                                     "javax.crypto.spec.RC2ParameterSpec",
> 128;
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission "RC4", 128;
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission "RC5", 128,
>          "javax.crypto.spec.RC5ParameterSpec", *, 12, *;
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission "RSA", *;
>    permission javax.crypto.CryptoPermission *, 128;
> };
>
> For the record, the first thing we do when provisioning a new JVM is
> to download the unlimited strength policy files and apply them in
> place of the defaults.  I'm so accustomed to having 256-bit ciphers
> available that it never dawned on me that the problem the OP had could
> be related to cipher bit length.  Joel, you might consider upgrading
> to 256-bit AES on your Java clients instead of downgrading OpenLDAP to
> 128.
>
> M
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