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| Summary: | [Help] Add FIPS support to the Help System | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | Chris Austin <ChrisAustin> |
| Component: | User Assistance | Assignee: | platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 3.7 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
Additional info according to the IBMJSEE2 Reference Guide (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/security/50/secguides/jsse2Docs/JSSE2RefGuide.html#runfips) "FIPS requires that the SSL protocol to be TLS. The SSLv3 protocol is not allowed when in FIPS mode. If the client or the server have requested to handshake using the SSLv3 protocol while in FIPS mode, the the handshake will fail." This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. If the bug is still relevant, please remove the "stalebug" whiteboard tag. |
Currently, https support in the Help System uses SSL connections: SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance( "SSL" ); //$NON-NLS-1$ In order to add support for FIPS, I believe we would need to allow for TLS connections: SSLContext.getInstance( "TLS" );