CZERTAINLY 2.6.0 - Attributes, Key Management, and more

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CZERTAINLY 2.6.0

We are happy to announce that CZERTAINLY version 2.6.0 has been released!

Highlights

Introduced A² engine

Attributes are all around in the platform and provides maximum flexibility in working with custom technologies. A² engine consists of:

• Connector Attributes that provides ability to define behaviour of different Providers
• Metadata Attributes that are exchanged between Core and Connectors to persist custom non-user data needed for processing
• Custom Attributes that can be defined by the user and applied to any object in the platform (like smart label or tag)

All of that with support of various data types to cover literally any use case, including CodeBlock for very specific code execution.

For more information, see A² engine.

New Cryptography Provider

Cryptography Provider implements specific technology capable of managing and using cryptographic keys. Independently of the connected technology, it provides interfaces to manage cryptographic tokens and cryptographic keys in a consistent way. The token is considered to be logical unit maintaining its cryptographic keys and there can be as many tokens as required with proper authentication or activation data.

When there is a need to use cryptographic key, platform can request operation on top of some specific key and the operation will be executed in the technology through the Cryptography Provider implementation. Supported operations are:

• Create / Destroy Key
• Encrypt / Decrypt
• Sign / Verify
• Generate random data

For more information, see Cryptography Provider.

Experimental support for PQC algorithms

With the implementation of Cryptography Provider we have also added to the platform experimental support for post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Supported are the following signature schemes:

• FALCON
• CRYSTALS-Dilithium
• SPHINCS+

The PQC algorithms can be used to sign request and if the certification authority supports it, certificates can be issued and managed in the inventory.

For more information, see Key Management.

Updated components

The following component were created or updated as part of this release:

• CZERTAINLY-Dependencies
• CZERTAINLY-Interfaces
• CZERTAINLY-Core
• CZERTAINLY-FE-Administrator
• CZERTAINLY-Keystore-Entity-Provider
• CZERTAINLY-MS-ADCS-Connector
• CZERTAINLY-EJBCA-NG-Connector
• CZERTAINLY-IP-Discovery-Provider
• CZERTAINLY-Software-Cryptography-Provider
• CZERTAINLY-Common-Credential-Provider
• CZERTAINLY-Cryptosense-Discovery-Provider
• CZERTAINLY-X509-Compliance-Provider

Additional information

You can read the full change log here: CZERTAINLY-Core-2.6.0

With this release we have updated available connector to support all new features.

Visit the our website or official documentation to learn more about CZERTAINLY!