On January 8, 2015, SafeNet became part of Gemalto with the aim to become the world's leading vendor of solutions for protecting data, transactions, and identities as well as monetizing software. SafeNet is firmly integrated into the wider product Gemalto portfolio and its solutions for Enterprise Security and Software Monetization are now at the heart of our vision to bring trust to an increasingly connected world.

The Gemalto brand has evolved to include the SafeNet portfolio and has resulted in some important changes to the former SafeNet corporate branding. In brief, this means that the SafeNet name will now refer to a product offer while Gemalto will be used as the company brand. The most visible impact for you will be a phase out of the SafeNet company logo although the SafeNet and Sentinel names will still be used for our products.

FYI, all existing product names remain the same. Moving forward, with new product releases, we will be changing the names of some SafeNet/Gemalto product family names as outlined in the following link.  These will be communicated as part of future product releases. Please note that the Ezio product family names are not planned to change in the near future.

 

 

Customer release notes for SafeNet ProtectApp v8.3 for JCE, .NET, and ICAPI are now available for download. These are maintenance releases that include the following enhancements:

SafeNet ProtectApp v8.3 JCE

• FPE alphanumeric support in local mode
• RSA/OAEP padding support in local mode
• RSA/PKCS1 padding in local mode
• KMIP username and password authentication
• User/Group management APIs
• Improved user experience and other internal product enhancements

Download Customer Release Notes and other information.*

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SafeNet ProtectApp v8.3 .NET

• FPE alphanumeric support in local mode
• KMIP username and password authentication
• KMIP states support
• Batch/Bulk API support
• Create versioned keys through APIs
• Support for key’s default IV which is stored along with the key in SafeNet KeySecure
• Improved user experience, including utility for verification of installer
• Other internal product enhancements

Download Customer Release Notes and other information.*

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SafeNet ProtectApp v8.3 ICAPI

• FPE alphanumeric support in local mode
• RSA/OAEP padding support in local and remote mode
• Enhancement in persistent key cache expiry
• RSA/PKCS1 padding in local mode
• KMIP username and password authentication
• KMIP states support
• Random algorithm load balancer
• Other internal product enhancements

Download Customer Release Notes and other information.*

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Please review the Advisory Notes and the Resolved and Known Issues sections of the release notes for any limitations and/or restrictions.

*Note: Registered users may access the documents via the Gemalto Support Portal. Should you need assistance logging in, please contact the SafeNet Support team at 800-545-6608 (US customers) or +1 410-931-7520 (International customers).

Customer release notes for SafeNet ProtectV v2.0.3 are now available for download from the Gemalto Support Portal.*

Details of this maintenance release can be found in the customer release notes for AWS and VMware.

Please review the Advisory Notes and the Resolved and Known Issues sections of the release notes for any limitations and/or restrictions.

*Note: Registered users may access the documents via the Gemalto Support Portal. Should you need assistance logging in, please contact the Gemalto support team at 800-545-6608 (US customers) or +1 410-931-752 (International customers).

A note to all SafeNet Customer Support Portal users:

The SafeNet Customer Support Portal has an upcoming scheduled maintenance window that will begin at 8 am EST Saturday November 29^th, 2014.  The event will total between 8 and 10 hours, with up to 6 hours of downtime.  Email and phone support operations are not impacted by this event.

For further information please contact Support via the Product Support page.

Thank you,

Customer Portal Support Team

Access to the SafeNet Customer Support Portal is included in Extended and Plus Maintenance Plans. Not registered? Visit the portal, and click “New User” to sign up.

Many products implementing TLS-based services allow for fallback to SSL v3.0 for compatibility reasons.  CVE-2014-3566,  published 14 October 2014, identified a vulnerability that could expose systems to man-in-the-middle attacks when such fallback is permitted. Details can be found at: CVE-2014-3566.

Exploitation of this vulnerability would require a sophisticated attacker to have access to the network and defeat other protection offered by SafeNet products and our customers.  SafeNet has conducted an assessment of products and concluded that the risk of compromise from this vulnerability is extremely unlikely. Please see SafeNet Customer Portal for additional information.

SafeNet has been made aware of a vulnerability affecting all versions of the bash package as documented in CVE-2014-6271.

The SafeNet portfolio is undergoing a full vulnerability assessment in light of this announcement. In the event of a finding, product specific advisories, software patches, or new software downloads will be available in the SafeNet Customer Portal. Please continue to check regularly for updates or subscribe to specific product news feeds.

See more at http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271#sthash.0dSY9UBh.dpuf

ProtectV 1.7 customer release notes for both AWS and VMware are available for download. This is a GA release offering new features and enhancements including an API that enables fine grained metering of ProtectV usage, distribution support for RHEL 6.4 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, improved first-run API for ease of initial PVM configuration, enhancements to HA functionality, and other performance improvements. Download customer release notes for AWS and VMware now:

• AWS – Customer Release Notes (007-011531-001)
• VMware – Customer Release Notes (007-011984-001)

Please review the Advisory Notes and the Resolved and Known Issues sections of the release notes for any limitations and/or restrictions. *Note:  Registered users may access the documents via the SafeNet Support Portal.  Should you need assistance logging in, please contact the SafeNet Support Team.

Customer Release Notes (CRNs) for the following releases are now available on the SafeNet Support Portal: StorageSecure, Version 01.03, Build 20 (PN: 007-012278-001 Rev D) This release is the November, 2013 GA release for the StorageSecure appliance. This release contains the following components:

• StS s220 1G Build: safenet-sts-01.03.20-I.upk
• StS s280 10G Build: safenet-sts-01.03.20-X.upk

This release supports the following network links:

• 1 GbE NIC in the Model s220 appliance
• 1 GbE or 10 GbE NIC in the Model s280 appliance
• 10/100/1000 out-of-band Admin port

StorageSecure, Version 01.03, Build 38 (PN: 007-012453-001, Rev. A) This release is the January, 2014 GA release for the StorageSecure appliance. This release contains the following components:

• StS s220 1G Build: safenet-sts-01.03.38-I.upk
• StS s280 10G Build: safenet-sts-01.03.38-X.upk

This release supports the following network links:

• 1 GbE NIC in the Model s220 appliance
• 1 GbE or 10 GbE NIC in the Model s280 appliance
• 10/100/1000 out-of-band Admin port

As new GA releases are posted to the Support Portal, they become the release that is recommended be used for new deployments. Typically, unless there are specific reasons to do so, it is neither necessary nor advised to immediately upgrade an existing production deployment to the latest GA release. Note: Do not start any upgrade without first reading the Firmware Upgrade section of the Customer Release Notes. Failure to fully understand and adhere to the recommendations provided in that section could cause the irretrievable loss of previously encrypted data. Please contact the SafeNet Support Team should you need assistance. Note: See the Advisory Notes and Resolved & Known Issues sections in the Customer Release Notes for any limitations and/or restrictions that may have changed since the previous releases and that may affect your configuration or environment.  

Customer release notes are available for ProtectApp-JCE, version 6.4.0 and version 6.5.0. SafeNet ProtectApp-JCE with KMIP support is a Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) provider that integrates applications with SafeNet cryptographic and key-management capabilities. Version 6.4.0 of ProtectApp-JCE is supported by version 6.4.0 of SafeNet DataSecure and Key Secure.  Version 6.5.0 of ProtectApp‐JCE is supported by version 6.5.0 of SafeNet DataSecure and Key Secure. Release notes can be accessed via the SafeNet Support Portal by registered users:

• ProtectApp-JCE, Version 6.4.0
• ProtectApp-JCE, Version 6.5.0

Please contact the SafeNet Support Team should you need assistance with site access.

Customer release notes for ProtectFile Linux v6.4.1 are now available, and can be accessed here. This release extends support for ProtectFile Linux on the following new ports:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 (64-bit) on
  • 2.6.18-371.el5

• Red Hat Enterprise 6.4 (64-bit) on
  • 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64

• Oracle Enterprise Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2 (64-bit) on
  • 2.6.39-400.209.1.el5uek
  • 2.6.39-400.209.1.el6uek.x86_64