Tested and confirmed.
The compromising elements that the iDRAC6 still relies on is either a 1024
certificate key and MD5 or MD2 both of which are deprecated for.... like 10
years[1]?

[1] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/Fahrplan/events/3023.en.html

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:09 PM, R S <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nah, the SSL/TLS backend in the iDRAC6 most likely needs to be updated and
> that will fix it (see other email thread from Mr. S. Smoogen). Instead we
> are insecuring our Java clients to make it work with insecure iDRAC6.
> If it were possible, I'd get a kick out of the results on SSLLabs. It's
> seems they are still relying on MD5 and 1024 keys!
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time, R S <[email protected]> said:
>> > We shouldn't be asked to downgrade our Java version, nor mess with the
>> > security setting of JDK/JRE/IcedT. If this really is java-related then
>> it's
>> > up to Dell to fix this and restore functionality of the iDRAC.
>>
>> I'm curious; if a Java upgrade broke an application, why do you blame
>> the application?  Java upgrades have been known to introduce bugs
>> before; it is quite possible the problem is on the Java end, not the
>> application end.
>>
>> If Microsoft sends out a Windows update and your Logitech mouse stops
>> working, do you blame Logitech?  No, it is probably a Microsoft bug.
>>
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