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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 6, 2016
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit TWAS-I-163 Increase keylength of Diffie Hellman key to 4096.

BPM cannot handle 4096bit DH modulus Merged

Security of certificates these days is doing by increasing the keylength.
BPM is not able to handle it and I think IBM should be able to make it working.
Copied following from PMR:
Our Java security specialists have review the recent traces, and
determined that the root cause of the problem is that the DH modulus
used by the server side was 4096 bit, which cannot be handled by
IBMJCE/PKCS11.

Even with the unrestricted policy file, the IBMJCE provider will still
only handle DH key length between 256 and 2048 (and when IBMPKCS11Impl
provider is used, the key length cannot be larger than 1024).

To resolve this problem, we ask that you change the setting on the DH
key spec used in server key exchange to 2048 tops. If you can't do this,
then the solution is to disable the DH ciphers at the Client (WebSphere)
side. There are no plans to increase the keylength at this time. If you
would like to see this feature implemented, please consider opening a
change request on our WebSphere RFE Community

Idea priority High
RFE ID 82140
RFE URL
RFE Product WebSphere Application Server