Release Notes
Product Description
CipherTrust Database Protection for Oracle (formerly known as ProtectDB for Oracle) delivers powerful protection for the sensitive corporate and customer information stored in databases. With CDP, you have the flexibility to encrypt data at the column-level within databases, at the application layer, and during batch-driven data transformation and transaction processes.
Release Description
This release includes new feature.
Features
- SafeNet ProtectDB for Oracle has been rebranded to CipherTrust Database Protection for Oracle.
Known Issues and Workaround
This section lists the issues known to exist in the product at the time of release.
| Reference | Synopsis |
|---|---|
| PDB-2143 | Summary: Migration fails for BLOB/CLOB for invalid user mapping and restore also fails. Recommendation: Correct the user mapping to restore the migration. |
| PDB-1428 | Summary: In Local Mode, for Group permissions on key, if the permission is changed from 'Decrypt Always' to 'Decrypt Never' and vice versa, it does not get reflected in the output of database operations. Recommendation: Restart the database service. |
| PDB-1395 | Summary: Any group permission related changes made after Authorization policy's Maximum Operations count does not get reflected in the output of database operations. Recommendation: Restart the database service. |
Random IV for each row is not supported if the table contains null value.
Compatibility Information
CDP is compatible with:
CipherTrust Manager 2.4 or higher versions.
pdbctl Utility 1.5.2 or higher versions.
Supported Operating Systems
CDP for Oracle is a Java based solution, which means it will work with most operating systems. It just requires the database java package to be installed and be available to the database. However, not all operating system versions are explicitly validated and listed.
Following operating systems are validated with CDP for Oracle:
Windows 2003 32 bit
Windows 2008, 2008 R2
RHEL6 32-bit
RHEL7 64-bit
SUSE 11 64-bit
AIX 6.1, 7.1 PowerPC64
Solaris 11 SPARC64
HPUX 11.31 IA 64-bit
Supported Oracle Versions
CDP for Oracle is supported on 12c, 18c, 19c, and Oracle XA driver.
Note
CDP supports the following Oracle Java Versions (OJVM):
6 (minimum 1.6.0_131)
7 (minimum 1.7.0_121)
8 (minimum 1.8.0_111)
Key Manager Compatibility
CipherTrust Manager: 2.1 and higher versions
Product Documentation
The product documentation is available on thalesdocs.
We have attempted to make these documents complete, accurate, and useful, but we cannot guarantee them to be perfect. When we discover errors or omissions, or they are brought to our attention, we endeavor to correct them in succeeding releases of the product.
