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.
This document may at times abbreviate CipherTrust Database Protection for Oracle to CDP and CipherTrust Manager to Key Manager.
Release Description
This release includes new feature.
Features
SafeNet ProtectDB for Oracle has been rebranded to CipherTrust Database Protection for Oracle.
Added support of Oracle 11.5.
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. |
Note
Random IV for each row is not supported if the table contains null value.
Supported Platforms and Compatibility Information
Operating Systems
CDP for Oracle is a Java based solution, hence allowing it to work with most of the operating systems. The CDP is supported on the following platforms, however, not all operating system versions combinations are explicitly validated.
AIX PowerPC
HPUX
RHEL
SUSE
openSUSE
Solaris SPARC
Windows
Oracle Linux v7.7 with UEK kernel
Oracle Linux v8.x (tested on v8.6)
Oracle Versions
CDP for Oracle is supported on Oracle 12c Release 2 (12.2), Oracle 19c, Oracle 21c, and Oracle XA driver.
CDP also supports:
Oracle RAC
Oracle Data Guard with Physical Standby Database (19.24.0.0.0)
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
KeySecure Classic: 8.12.0 and higher versions.
CipherTrust Manager: 2.11.1 LTS and higher versions
