conpal LAN Crypt 4.00.3
Administration release notes
conpal LAN Crypt 4.00.3
Admin comes with support for new operating systems and for SGN/SafeGuard Fileshare.
If not stated otherwise the older release notes for LAN Crypt 4.00.2, 4.00.1
and 4.00 remain valid.
Please note the LAN
Crypt 4.00.3 Client release notes.
Requirements
The below listed platforms
are officially supported. Other Service Pack levels might work as well but have
not run through a QA cycle and won´t be analysed in case of occurring issues.
Platforms supported
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
Windows 10 1909 (19H2), 2004 (20H1) Pro/Enterprise, 20H2
Pro/Enterprise, 21H2 pro/Enterprise, Windows 11 Pro/Enterprise
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012 R2
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2016
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2019
|
No
|
Yes
|
New in conpal LAN Crypt Client release
4.00.3
- Windows 11 support
- Windows 10 21H2 support
- Support
for SGN/SafeGuard FileShare keys. In combination with a key export and an
key import tool Fileshare encrypted files can be handled by conpal LAN
Crypt 4.00.3 Client with Minifilter. The LAN Crypt Administration 4.00.3
is required for the key import.
Changes in 4.00.3
- LAN Crypt 3.97, or 4.00 Client cannot find user certificate if
profile was created with LAN Crypt Administration 4.00.x before 4.00.3,
client cannot load the profile with the error message: " User
certificate not found (LC-2010)
Manuals,
documentation and support
At https://support.conpal.de registered customers
with active maintenance contracts get access to downloads,documentation and
knowledge items.
The administration contains an extensive context
sensitive help. This information will be available in form of a pdf manual a
couple of days after release for download.
Download the admin product documentation at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/de/admin/lc_403_ahdeu.pdf in German language, at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_403_aheng.pdf in English language and
at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_401_ahfra.pdf in French language.
Updates for the
context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.
conpal LAN Crypt
4.00.2 Administration release notes
conpal LAN Crypt 4.00.2
is in focus a maintenance release. If stated otherwise the release notes for
LAN Crypt 4.00.1 remain valid.
Please note the LAN
Crypt 4.00.2 Client release notes.
Requirements
The below listed platforms are officially supported. Other Service Pack
levels might work as well but have not run through a QA cycle and won´t be
analysed in case of occurring issues.
Platforms supported
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
Windows 10 1909 (19H2), 2004 (20H1) Pro/Enterprise, 20H2
Pro/Enterprise
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012 R2
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2016
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2019
|
No
|
Yes
|
Bugfixes in 4.00.2
Manuals, documentation and
support
At
https://support.conpal.de registered customers with
active maintenance contracts get access to downloads,documentation and
knowledge items.
The administration contains an extensive context sensitive
help. This information will be available in form of a pdf manual a couple of
days after release for download.
Download the admin product documentation at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/de/admin/lc_401_ahdeu.pdf in
German language, at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_401_aheng.pdf in
English language and at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_401_ahfra.pdf in
French language.
Updates for the
context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.
conpal LAN Crypt 4.00.1 Administration release notes
Please
note the LAN Crypt
4.00.1 Client release notes.
Requirements
The below listed platforms are
officially supported. Other Service Pack levels might work as well but have not
run through a QA cycle and won´t be analysed in case of occurring issues.
Platforms supported
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
Windows 10 1803 (RS4), 1809 (RS5),
1903 (19H1), 1909 (19H2), 2004 (20H1) Pro/Enterprise, 20H2 Pro/Enterprise
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012 R2
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2016
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2019
|
No
|
Yes
|
New in conpal LAN Crypt Admin release 4.00.1
- Windows 10 20H2 support
- Add translations for error message on
unsupported OS (LC-1251)
Changes in 4.00.1
·
Now
the MiniFilter can handle the setting of the tab „Client-API“. No separate
script necessary anymore. (LC-690)
(LC-1216)
Bugfixes in 4.00.1
- Updated helpfiles (LC-84, LC-645, LC-801,
LC-1421)
- Client-API-Dll
can handle long pathnames now (LC-1454)
- Findkey shows keys to unauthorized
SOs/Find Keys Degradation (LC-1384)
- Key wrapping
could not be disabled (LC-1231)
- Missing
link in English helpfile (LC-1290)
- Branding
(LC-935)
- Freeze-after-certificate-creation-cancel
(LC-1246)
- cleared
profile not loaded (LC-1427)
- Create
certificates dialog now finishes the progress even if some users already
have a certificate. (LC-1467)
- Fix
search filter crash (LC-1463)
- Branding
topics (LC-1518) createtables branding (LC-698)
- GPO context sensitive help (LC-1236).
Manuals, documentation and support
At
https://support.conpal.de registered customers with
active maintenance contracts get access to downloads,documentation and
knowledge items.
The administration contains an extensive context
sensitive help. This information will be available in form of a pdf manual a
couple of days after release for download.
Download the admin product documentation at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/de/admin/lc_401_ahdeu.pdf in
German language, at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_401_aheng.pdf in
English language and at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_401_ahfra.pdf in
French language.
Updates for the
context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.
conpal LAN Crypt 4.00.0 Administration release notes
Please
note the LAN Crypt
4.00.0 Client release notes.
conpal LAN Crypt is the
successor of SafeGuard LAN Crypt.
conpal LAN Crypt 3.97
Administration was the initial release of conpal for the Administration. It
contained fixes and hotfixes of the previous SafeGuard LAN Crypt 3.90
Administration, but almost no functional enhancements. In sense of operating systems
and databases additional versions were supported and support for some operating
systems and databases have been dropped.
conpal LAN Crypt 4.00
Administration is a significant rework of the Administration, focused on
improvements in operational speed and laying the ground for a complete
replacement of the API functionality by a faster and more modern approach. It
is reworked bottom up, including the cryptographic base.
Some new functions, like SHA2 support for LAN Crypt generated certificates,
have been added.
Novell and Windows 7 support has been dropped, Oracle support for more current
databases has been added. Current operating systems are supported.
In addition new client capabilities can be managed.
Please note that we have
invested considerable effort in the continuity of the product. A migration of
3.9x databases requires minimal effort.
Mixed environments of older and current clients are supported (please refer to
section operation).
Manuals, documentation and support
At
https://support.conpal.de registered customers with
active maintenance contracts get access to downloads,documentation and
knowledge items.
The administration contains an extensive context
sensitive help. This information will be available in form of a pdf manual a
couple of days after release for download.
Download the admin product documentation at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/de/admin/lc_400_ahdeu.pdf in
German language, at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_400_aheng.pdf in
English language and at
https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_400_ahfra.pdf in
French language.
Updates for the
context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.
Requirements
The below listed platforms are
officially supported. Other Service Pack levels might work as well but have not
run through a QA cycle and won´t be analysed in case of occurring issues.
Platforms supported
|
32-bit
|
64-bit
|
Windows 10 Build 1803, 1809,
1903, 1909, 2004 Pro/Enterprise
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2012 R2
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2016
|
No
|
Yes
|
Windows Server 2019
|
No
|
Yes
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP4
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2017
Microsoft SQL Server 2019
Azure SQL has been verified to be functional with LAN Crypt administration 3.97
and 4.0 LAN Crypt 4.0 provides the ability to logon using the active directory
interactive authentication. LAN Crypt 3.97 does not support this type of
authentication.
Oracle 12 and Oracle 19 are supported, whereas SQL Server remains LAN Crypt’s
preferred database.
A LAN Crypt database created
under LAN Crypt 3.90 or 3.97 must be updated in advance using
"CreateTables.exe %ODBCName% m u" for use under LAN Crypt 4.00
Administration. The createtables tool provides a help message for specifics
regarding e.g. Oracle.
Upgrade
For an upgrade-installation
you can find additional information in the user manual.
An upgrade installation of the administration is supported from conpal LAN
Crypt 3.97 (recommended) and SafeGuard LAN Crypt 3.90.
Migration of older versions is not supported, but technically possible, we
recommend to make use of Professional services in such cases.
New in conpal LAN Crypt Administration release 4.00.0
- Windows
Server 2019 is now supported
- Microsoft
SQL Server 2019 is now supported
- Oracle
19 and Oracle 12 are supported, whereas SQL Server remains LAN Crypt’s
preferred database
- Support
for policies for Removables, Opticals, Local Volumes, Boot Volume and
Network Shares - to be executed on v4 Clients
- Integration
of earlier patches for LAN Crypt
- SHA2 support
for LAN Crypt generated certificates (*SO, User)
Operation of LAN Crypt 4.00 administrative
environments
A mixed operation of LAN Crypt v4 Admin and LAN
Crypt v3.x Admin is not supported.
It is possible to run a v3.97 Admin with v4
Clients and v3 Clients.
It is possible to run a v4.00 Admin with v4
Clients and v3 Clients.
XML is the only supported policy file format of
v4.00 Admin and v4.00 Clients.
New profile files are created by v4.00, with
sections for v3 and v4 Clients.
The new encryption rules for Removables,
Opticals etc are transported in the new section.
Once new rules have been created with v4.00, it
is no longer possible to create profiles with a v3 Admin. Doing so would
potentially have negative effects on the client.
Changes
- Integration
of new cryptographic libraries in Admin and Client (for security reasons)
- Renewal
of 3rd party libraries (for security reasons)
- Integration
of a new random number generator (for security reasons)
- Significant
improvement of administrative tasks in large installations
- All in all, the optimizations carried out are
clearly noticeable in many areas. This concerns both the API and the
management program. Since central points have been optimized, the overall
system has become faster. Individual areas with optimizations have become
dramatically faster.
- Reduction of database accesses: In many
functions the access to the database has been drastically reduced.
- Improvement SQL Indexes:
- New indices were added specifically when a
clearly measurable improvement in performance was achieved.
- Improvement in processing algorithms:
- Internally, functions have been structurally
revised to achieve better throughput. In particular, double reading of
identical data records has been removed in many places.
- In order to use parallelization optimally, at
least 4 cores should be available on the computer. More cores do not
provide much performance improvement at the moment.
- When creating certificates for large groups,
more cores are also used well and up to 12 cores are advantageous. Based
on our measurements and configurations we recommend 6-8 cores.
- Beginning with V4.00.0, the functions that
process many individual orders in one order are parallelized. Examples
are the creation of certificates and profiles.
- Examples for the parallelisation of certificate
creation are reading the database, creating keys, and writing the
certificates. Here, these steps function as in a pipeline, so to speak.
Another example is the creation of profiles. Here, too, the tasks are
treated like a pipeline with the substeps reading the database
information, preparing the XML profile, signing profiles, compressing,
and writing profiles. The subareas are well separated and the runtime
for larger groups has been approximately halved in our test
environments.
- Optimization of memory management:
At central points, the memory
handling was improved and optimized. These optimizations were clearly
measurable, but only lead to small improvements in relation to database
accesses.
- Optimization of functions:
Many functions have been technically revised internally for better
maintainability and performance.
- SQL
Express is no longer supplied with the distribution. It can be downloaded
directly from the Microsoft site.
- Due to
security improvements in LAN Crypt 4.00 a warning appears, when weak
algorithms are selected (XOR, DES, 3DES, IDEA). (LC-957, LC-958, LC-1056)
For continuity reasons (e.g.
backup) such algorithms are not prohibited.
For the selection of XOR this
is reinforced, and the SO must also have the right to define GUIDs for new keys
to be able to select this algorithm.
- Certificates
are generated with SHA2 instead of SHA1 (LC-336)
- XTS-AES
is the default encryption algorithm in LAN Crypt 4.00
- Support
for other databases and operating systems than the ones mentioned has been
dropped
- The
usage of the Client API must be configured in the Administration and – in
case the minifilter is used on client-side - the included script to enable
permissions for specific applications has to be adopted and executed on
the client-side
- Changed
behaviour regarding client API permissions for security improvement:
Long path names are now
default for client API configuration. For convenience reasons short names are
internally completed by searching some
protected paths, when program names are configured without path
information. The client will search in the following directories:
LAN Crypt Install Dir\Shared\
(non-recursive)
CSIDL_SYSTEM (typical
C:\Windows\System32, non-recursive)
CSIDL_WINDOWS (typical
C:\Windows, non-recursive)
CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES (typical
C:\Program Files, recursive)
If an EXE file with the
specified name is found, the full path will be internally added.
Other pathes are now untrusted
for short file names. (LC-690)
- Group
policy configuration is also possible with administrative templates. The
support for adm has been dropped. The admx template files are located in
the config folder of the product package. Please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530196.aspx for information on how
the files have to be installed.
- Import
from a Novell directory has not been supported since v3.90. Other Novell
functionality is now as well not supported and will not be functional in
the administration.
- Additional
API functions have been added
- The
EULA has been updated (for German, English and French)
- The 3rd
parties’ inventory has been consolidated and updated
- Admin
does not start with "Selected users and certificates” anymore (but
this behaviour can be configured. (LC-844)
Bugfixes
- Recovery
key handling fixed. (LC-434)
- Password
file: missing carriage return (LC-247)
- Preselected button and triggered action on
<Enter> don't match while creating groups (LC-213)
- Wrong
error message when trying to build profiles with expired certificates
(LC-194)
Known issues
- The
detailed description text in the admin log for the action Create profile
is erroneously truncated after the first character (LC-1227)
- Explicit
rules for file extensions are not executed correctly by the minifilter.
The Minifilter does not execute rules like *.ext correctly for encryption
and ignore rules. As a workaround, we recommend to add an additional rule
like *\*.ext. Having both rules, *.ext and *\*.ext active, works as well
for V3.9x and V4.0 clients
- MSO
smart card login fails on WS2012 R2 (LC-1120):
In Windows Server 2012 R2, SO
logon with certificate on smart card is not possible. According to our tests, this
is the only supported operating system with this limitation.
- Deleting
nested groups requires a relatively large amount of memory and can lead to
instability. Therefore, we recommend not to nest more than 200 groups into
each other. (LC-527)
- Network
errors:
If the network connection to the SQL server, or to a LDAP source, is
broken during LAN Crypt administration, the LAN Crypt Administration must
be closed and restarted (after the network problem is fixed).
- Entering
very long data into LAN Crypt dialogues (e.g. configuring trusted
applications or virus-scanners) might lead to crashes of the
administration console. In addition these data is not are not saved in the
configuration database (LC-570)
- Simultaneous
administration:
If more than one SO is working with the LAN Crypt database at the same
time, problems can occur. We recommend a regular manual refresh in that
case.
- admx do
not recognize new placeholders for unhandled devices (LC-1201)
- If the new placeholders for Unhandled Devices
are selected in the LAN Crypt node of the gpme, they are not displayed in
the administrative template and therefore cannot be managed there.
- LDAP
import and synchronization:
- If objects are imported from a domain, you must
specify the domain name and not the computer name in the server
configuration!
When configuring server logon data in central settings you should either
only enter the domain name as server name or add the domain name as an
alias.
- On the root level (e.g. domain), only 999
objects are displayed and imported.
- Page controls have to be enabled on the LDAP
server.
- Certificate
store:
LAN Crypt only supports certificates in one of the user certificate
stores. It does not support certificates in machine stores.
- Installation
on 64-bit operating systems:
LAN Crypt Administration is installed on 64-bit operating systems,
therefore the following has to be considered:
- ODBC administration:
The ODBC connection used by LAN Crypt Administration has to be configured
using the 32-bit ODBC Data Source Administrator
(%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe or use the shortcut in the start menu).
Remark: The shortcut in the LAN Crypt start menu is not displayed on
Windows Server 2012. Please use the shortcut ODBC Data Sources (32-bit) available in
Administrative Tools
instead.
- Group policy plugin:
The group policy plugin to administer LAN Crypt is not shown in the
Windows group policy editor. To administer the LAN Crypt policies, the
32-bit Group Policy Editor has to be used (%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gpedit.msc
for local policies or %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\gpme.msc for Active Directory
policies or use the shortcut in the start menu).
As an alternative the administrative templates can be used which are
stored in the config folder of the product package.
- Scripting API:
The scripting API is only available for 32-bit applications. If a Visual
Basic-Script is started which uses the LAN Crypt scripting API, it has to
be started from the 32-bit Windows Scripting Host
(%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\cscript.exe or %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\wscript.exe).
- Firewall
settings:
If the Microsoft SQL Server database is located on another machine, please
ensure that the firewall is configured correctly. Additional information
can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc646023.aspx.
- To
operate LAN Crypt clients as a service, additional configuration steps are
needed. Please contact support for further details.
- For
performance (testing) in VMware VMs, it is recommended not to configure
more CPUs than the host has available. Scaling should be done by the
number of cores (i.e. not 2 CPU & 2 cores, better 1 CPU & 4 cores
if only 1 host CPU is available).
- GPO
context sensitive help:
For the operation of the Group Policies (GPO settings) there is
documentation available in the side panel of the console. There is also a
context sensitive help (sglcconfig040x.chm.) available. In version
4.00.0, the old version without
rebranding was erroneously integrated into the setup. This version is
technically almost correct but may still contain incorrect references to
SafeGuard or outdated license information. If necessary, an updated
version can be obtained from Support a few days after release and will be
included in later deliveries. To update, this must then be copied to
%\Windows\Help (LC-1236).
- The
rebranding of Sophos SafeGuard to conpal is comprehensive but may
inadvertently be incomplete.