conpal LAN Crypt 4.2.0 Administration release notes

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.2.0 is a feature release that also comes with improved security functionality and several bugfixes. New features:

• Malware Protection
• OneDrive Settings package
• LAN Crypt 2Go Key Import
• Adding Multiple Encryption Groups to a User
• Bypass Rules Deployment
• Multiple Virus Scanner Configurations
• PreventPlainFilesPath Option
• New Operating Systems Support
• Additional Database Support
• API extensions
• Localization Support for MFA
• Client Performance Improvements
• HTML-Based Client Help
• On-Premise OneNote Support
• Search field for groups
• Network filter installation without network interruption
• Detail work on icons, dialogs and error messages
• LCA 64-bit .NET API
• Several enhancements for .NET API
• Support of Server-Side Copy
• DsStateCache for caching unencrypted files
• Renewal of assigned certificates

Please note the LAN Crypt 4.2.0 Client release notes.

Older release notes for LAN Crypt remain valid, if not stated otherwise.

 

Requirements

The below listed platforms have been tested and 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.

Supported Windows 64-bit operating system platforms

Pro/Enterprise versions of Windows 10 1809 (LTSC), 20H2, 21H2, 21H2 (LTSC), 22H2

Pro/Enterprise versions of Windows 11 21H2, 22H2

Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2022

Supported Citrix Environments

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 1912 LTSR CU2 on WS 2019

Supported Database Servers

MS SQL 2019

MS SQL 2022

Oracle 19

Please note: MS SQL Server 2017 has a Mainstream Support End Date of Oct 11, 2022 and will therefore not be supported by LAN Crypt Administration v4.2.0. MS SQL Server 2019 and 2022 are supported. Oracle 8,9 and 12 will not be supported by LAN Crypt Administration v4.2.0. Oracle 19 is supported.

 

If a LAN Crypt Client (LCC) shall be used in combination with LAN Crypt Admin (LCA), it requires a LAN Crypt Client of the same version. Otherwise, when deinstalling the LCC, the LCA does not work anymore. It is required, to use a client of the same version (LC-1546).

 

Mixed operation of old and new versions of LCA on the same database is not supported (LC-3152).

 

New in conpal LAN Crypt Administration release 4.2.0

• LAN Crypt 2Go Key Import: Key value, GUID, name and encryption algorithm can be imported from a file encrypted with LC2Go. This enables the LAN Crypt client to read and decrypt files encrypted by LC2Go with a password and vice versa (LC-2859).
• Additional security function – no plain file access on removables: Malware import protection for removables (external USB sticks or HDD) with a single rule by disallowing plain file access on external storage devices (LC-2861).
• Adding multiple encryption groups to a user at once. Groups can be selected directly from the users' properties menu (LC-1027).
• Search field for Groups in tree view for MMC added (LC-145).
• Bypass rules can now be deployed with the profile. Although bypass rules should only be considered in very rare cases and only after contacting conpal support, they can be deployed via a profile instead of registry settings and GPO for simplified deployment (LC-2864, LC-2991, LC-3079, LC-3045, LC-3080). Please note: LAN Crypt Administration API does not support creation or validation of bypass rules. Conflicts of ignore and bypass rules are possible (LC-3096).
• Enable configuration of multiple Virus Scanners without delay when profile is loaded. The configured AV process needs to either run during profile loading or be configured with a full path. Wildcards can now be used as part of the path (LC-2925).
• PreventPlainFilesPath policy added to ADMX. This setting prevents that plain files are created in defined network paths or on mapped drives if no conpal LAN Crypt user profile has been loaded yet, or the user does not have one (LC-1492).
• Oracle support in .NET API (LC-2912)
• LCA 64-bit .NET API (LC-2692)
• Support of Windows 10 and Windows 11 – 22H2, and MS SQL Server 2022

 

Changes in conpal LAN Crypt Administration release 4.2.0

• Assignment of certificates associated with the "MS Base Cryptographic Provider v1.0" is now prevented (LC-2642).
• Enable configuration of multiple Virus Scanners without delay when profile is loaded, see documentation of the modified operation mode (LC-2925)
• The setting “Only SO with the ‘Generate profile’ right can generate keys (keys without a value are not permitted)” is now activated by default, so that new keys are always created with random values as default if no key value has been specified (LC-2544).
• Recovery key: Tabular representation changed to simple field. Only one recovery key is now supported (LC-339, LC-2727).
• Limitation of string length: renaming SO, MSO Wizard (Name and E-Mail) (LC-597, LC-796, LC-988)
• Renew certificates for multiple users who already have certificates assigned: New checkbox added to existing wizard to allow "Create new Certificates (even if there are already existing ones)". This option was also added to the corresponding API functions. (LC-2817).
• Import function of intermediate and root certificates stores these certificates in the correct certificate stores now (LC-2611)
• Necessary permissions for CreateTables.exe reduced (LC-2690).
• Updated Windows start menu folder names. Changed to “conpal LAN Crypt Administration” and “conpal LAN Crypt Client” (LC-1261).
• Change of the build numbering (LC-2927).
• Product icons modified (LC-2860).
• Embedded libraries updated (LC-3035).
• .NET-API now requires an additional parameter for Database.Logon(). Sample scripts show proper functionality (LC-2965).
• CreateTables: Oracle 8, 9 and 12 support is removed (LC-3074).
• CreateTables now accepts password for ODBC connection from command line (LC-2795).

 

Bugfixes in conpal LAN Crypt Administration release 4.2.0

• Assistant for Recovery Key with/without ESKM - settings, cache and dialog options fixed (LC-2382, LC-2746, LC-2747, LC-2748).
• .NET API: CreateCertificate(UserName) and Certificates.CreateCertificate(UserName) created a .p12 with a wrong name and wrong certificate details. Creating certificates for a group instead of a user did not show this error. Now login names are correctly used (LC-2701).
• Wrong translation in the German settings corrected (LC-3051).
• Translations for LAN Crypt Japanese language version (LC-2906, LC-2897, LC-2882).
• LCA Help "question mark" and F1 key in Central Settings work now (LC-394).
• Certificate import issues fixed (e.g., when administrative rights where required for import of user certificates) (LC-3006).
• The MSO wizard allows several parent windows to open the folder selection file dialog to save profile and security keys. This caused a crash in some circumstances (LC-787).
• In certain scenarios the private keys from imported MSO certificates could not be found for logon. This is now fixed (LC-2806).
• Adding or deleting a large number of users at once from a user group, clicking on Apply and then Cancel caused LAN Crypt to crash (LC-2899, LC-2913).
• Crash during LDAP certificate assignment when entering long texts has been fixed (LC-605).
• Enforcement of unique Server and alias names (LC-2919).
• Certificate status information after certificate generation fixed (LC-739).
• Recovery option: If a higher value than the number of existing additional SO was entered in the "Additional authorization" setting, a warning appeared that could only be confirmed with OK. After that, the entered value was applied anyway. In the worst case, this could lead to the MSO being locked out, which can only be undone using the recovery key. To solve this, a Cancel button was added (LC-804).
• If a user belongs to several groups and identical paths for rules are created in these groups, the profile is not created with a message. There the path information was missing (LC-1481).
• Creating a user profile with user properties outside the maximum allowed character length is correctly aborted, but the next profile creation within the maximum allowed character length resulted in the same error. This has been fixed (LC-2930).
• Create user: Input field length limited (LC-795)
• CreateTables: Update for Oracle now works correctly (LC-2943).
• If certificates are added to users via the CertAssign wizard, the correct number of assigned certificates is now displayed (LC-1456).
• Corrected error message when creating users within a group but canceling the dialog (LC-192).
• WinNT import: Special scenarios caused errors/crashes. User can be imported now. There is a remaining limitation regarding E-Mail-addresses (LC-2502).
• Start menu cascaded incorrectly (LC-3073).
• GPO handle overflow in “Cached policy file lifetime” setting fixed (LC-552).
• null-pointer crash during profile creation fixed (LC-2751).

 

New and known issues in conpal LAN Crypt Administration release 4.2.0

• The 3rd party inventory "3rd_party_software.pdf" is present and up to date in the LCA and LCC deployment folders. The "3rd_party_software.pdf" installed with the LC product is missing an entry:
• "libkmip/BSD license" (LC-2696).
• KeyValue is not set when Default key is created. The manual is updated with more specific information in the key tab/key value section (LC-2544).
• When IP addresses are used for generating rules, several conditions must be taken into consideration to avoid wrong execution. Correct syntax is required for IP rules, otherwise they will not be ignored by the registry setting RemoveDomainFromRules functionality (LC-1483, LC-2454).
• LAN Crypt Administration/MMC sometimes crashes when deleting groups created by C# example script (LC- 2268).
• The message ‘Path unknown’ is displayed incorrectly when importing users with anonymous LDAP authentication. User import is not possible in this session afterwards (LC-2931).
• MMC crash can occur, if profiles are created in a group tree with more than 80 groups nested into each other (LC-3193).

 

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/ja/admin/lc_420_ahjpn.pdf in Japanese language, at

https://help.lancrypt.com/docs/admin/de/ in German language, at

https://help.lancrypt.com/docs/admin/en/ in English language and at

https://help.lancrypt.com/docs/admin/fr/ in French language.

 

API documentation can be obtained from:

https://help.lancrypt.com/docs/api/client/en/

https://help.lancrypt.com/docs/api/admin/en/

Updates for the context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.

 

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.2 Administration release notes

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.2 is a Japanese language version and available by our partner in Japan only. It is functional identical to LAN Crypt 4.1.1.
Please refer to the conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.1 part of the release notes.

Please note the LAN Crypt 4.1.2 Client release notes.

Older release notes for LAN Crypt remain valid, if not stated otherwise.

 

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/ja/admin/lc_412_ahjpn.pdf in Japanese language, at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/de/admin/lc_411_ahdeu.pdf in German language, at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_411_aheng.pdf in English language and at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_411_ahfra.pdf in French language. Please note, the French manual will be published delayed, for the time being use the English manual.

 

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.1 Administration release notes

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.1 is a maintenance release, there are no new features included.
Please refer to the conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.0 part of the release notes.

 

Please note the LAN Crypt 4.1.1 Client release notes.

Older release notes for LAN Crypt 4.00.x remain valid, if not stated otherwise.

 

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
Pro/Enterprise Versions of Windows 10 1809 (LTSC), 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, Windows 11	No	Yes
Windows Server 2019	No	Yes
Windows Server 2022	No	Yes

 

If a LAN Crypt Client (LCC) shall be used in combination with LAN Crypt Admin (LCA), it requires a LAN Crypt Client of the same version. Otherwise, when deinstalling the LCC, the LCA does not work anymore. It is required, to use a client of the same version (LC-1546).

 

Bugfixes in conpal LAN Crypt Administration, Release 4.1.1

 

• Recovery key does now work with "1 of 1" key assignment. Fix works as well for KMIP server (LC-2724)
• Corrupt MAC for database with multifactor authentication can now be repaired (LC-2577)
• Virtual Smart Card: Cancel the dialog for PIN entry now does not attempt smart card logon anymore (LC-2408)

 

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_411_ahdeu.pdf in German language, at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_411_aheng.pdf in English language and at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_411_ahfra.pdf in French language. Please note, the French manual will be published delayed, for the time being use the English manual

Updates for the context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.

 

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.0 Administration release notes

 

conpal LAN Crypt 4.1.0 comes with support for new operating systems new functionality, improved security functionality and new features

e.g.

·          Richer support for SGN/SafeGuard Fileshare customers

·          Portable file encryption

·          Minifilter with caching capabilities for SMB network shares

·          New .NET Administration API

·          Client API login with user context

·          LAN Crypt-Service functionality

·          Manipulation protection for processes

·          Multi factor Authentication based on 3^rd party technology

·          Interoperation with Azure technologies (like Azure SQL)

·          Oracle 19 Support

The Legacyfilter has been abandoned, but is still supported with the 4.00.x version of the product.

If not stated otherwise the older release notes for LAN Crypt 4.00.3, 4.00.2, 4.00.1 and 4.00 remain valid.

Please note the LAN Crypt 4.1.0 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
Pro/Enterprise Versions of Windows 10 1809 (LTSC), 1909 (19H2), 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, Windows 11	No	Yes
Windows Server 2016	No	Yes
Windows Server 2019	No	Yes
Windows Server 2022	No	Yes

 

If a LAN Crypt Client (LCC) shall be used in combination with LAN Crypt Admin (LCA), it requires a LAN Crypt Client of the same version. Otherwise, when deinstalling the LCC, the LCA does not work anymore. It is required, to use a client of the same version (LC-1546).

 

New in conpal LAN Crypt Administration release 4.1.0

• Support for SGN/SafeGuard FileShare keys. In combination with a key export and a key import tool Fileshare encrypted files can be handled by conpal LAN Crypt Client 4.00.3 or newer with Minifilter. The LAN Crypt Administration 4.00.3 or newer is required for the key import.
• New .NET API: Provision of the existing V4.0 API as .NET library (A compilable C++/CLI project ‘LCNetApi’ ), including a C# test project that calls some of these functions as examples (LC-1472). Please also have a look at the section .NET API in these release notes.
• Administration capabilities for clientside Multifactor Authentication of the 3^rd party technology of inWebo

 

Changes in 4.1.0

• Sometimes LAN Crypt 3.97, or 4.00 clients cannot find user certificates, if the profile was created with LAN Crypt Administration 4.00.x before 4.00.3. The client cannot load the profile with the error message: `User certificate not found` (LC-2010)
  LAN Crypt 4.1 Administration generates profiles, which do not lead to that error.
• msiexec: When LAN Crypt packages are installed, the packagename for the userapplication is now corrected to ´UserApplication` instead of client.
  The AddLocal parameter is named ’UserApplication’ instead of ’Client’ (LC-2214)
• Performance improvements in the wizard for certificate allocation (LC-1708, LC-745).
• Performance improvements when loading objects, e.g. when WIN-NT domain names are appended with characters (LC-664).
• Boost library removed for better maintenance of security relevant functions (LC-474).
• The LAN Crypt certificates are changed to conpal branding (LC-1265).
• Algorithm names are now consistent in client and admin (LC-952).
• Trusted Vendor behaves differently in v4 with respect to expired certificates. In LCA v4 there is a new check so that expired certificates can no longer be used. When importing a certificate from a cer file (in the Trusted Vendors tab), an error message now appears if that cert has expired. When using an exe file, the validity is (apparently) not currently checked. Certs can be added to Trusted Vendors from the exe, even if they are invalid. This makes sense if, for example, a three year old program is to be added. However, the behavior is different between import from *.exe and from *.cer and therefore documented (LC-1114).

 

Bugfixes in 4.1.0

 

• A SO was able to log on to the administration, when logging was enabled, but not possible (LC-1683).
• The limitation of the manual input of the key GUID to 16 bytes did not work reliably (LC-1157).
• The action ‘ Find key’  was selectable, although SO had no right for the administration of keys (LC-1284).
• Crash when expanding groups in deep tree structure (LC-1684).
• Text correction: Error message Additional authorization. (LC-927, LC-1291).
• Text correction: Additional Authorization - If a value is specified for the number of SOs required for additional authorization that is higher than the amount of additional SOs that are created, a warning appeared, the warning text was not correct (LC-1201).
• When editing a LC group structure with a minimum depth of 25 subgroups, LCA crashed when creating new rules via the "conpal LAN Crypt Encrypting Rules and Tags" tab (LC-1430).
• AD imports from too large OUs failed (LC-1460).
• If a long directory name was entered in the LC Admin during certificate assignment from file, a buffer overflow occurs internally (LC-1055).
• Crash on certificate assignment with wrong data type. Assigning a certificate from a file using the Certificate Wizard sometimes causd LCA to crash if binary files (e.g. P12 files) were used (LC-1404).
• Robustness for handling of special characters has been improved (e.g. for the certificate import wizard) (LC-1445).
• If CreateTables was called with an invalid ODBC name, an unhelpful error message appeared (LC-1873).
• Upgrade installation LCA and LCC v3 -> v4: MSI ProductCode did not match with Registry ProductCode (LC-1324).
• When cancelling the import of the Active Directory in the Certificate Assignment Wizard, the LCA console would freeze, while the process was running. (LC-576).
• Crash when copying / moving large tree structures (LC-675).
• Admin RecoveryKey was processed internally without transaction backup (LC-341).
• Profile creation wizard behaved differently when called in different places (In total user overview, in user list within a group) (LC-819).
• If LAN Crypt logging was enabled, but the log table got corrupted, no SO could log in anymore. As a fix the MSO now can log on to LCA despite a MAC error in logging, disable logging and repairing the MAC (LC-190).
• GPME - Crash if input for locations was too long. It concerned Location for Security Officer certificates, Location for policy files, Location for key files (LC-724).

 

New known issues

• LAN Crypt uses CSP (Cryptographic Service Provider) to access smartcards. Containers are not specified during access. Therefore, conflicts can occur when using several smartcard readers on one machine, especially if a smartcard is inserted in several readers and "identical" certificates / containers are present there (LC-1121).
• When LAN Crypt Administration v3 and LAN Crypt client v4.x are installed on the same machine, the deinstallation of the LAN Crypt Client leads to improper function, because the connection to LCSERVN.EXE is not available anymore (LC-1546).
  It is strongly recommended, to install the same client versions with the administration (v4 LCA and v4 LCC).
• Not really new, but important: The default database, not the master database shall be used, when creating the LAN Crypt database (LC-84), see the section 3.2. in the manual.
• The VisualStudio runtime might not be available on some machines. In this case e.g. deinstallation of the product might not be possible.
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
  https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
  https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
• CreateTables.exe still offers options for Oracle 8,9, and 12, even though they are not anymore supported.

 

.NET API (LC-2437)

• When using the .Net Admin API, if you receive the following message when initializing the Admin API, a package reference must be included in your project:
  Message:
  The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Win32.Registry' threw an exception. Registry is not supported on this platform.
  Necessary reference:
  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Win32.Registry" Version="5.0.0" />

§  If you do not perform a product installation when using the .Net Admin API on the server and distribute the DLLs yourself, the registry entry for the installation directory must be set accordingly by you, otherwise dependent DLLs will not be found at runtime.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\conpal\LAN Crypt\Admin\Setup

Value: InstallDir, Type REG_SZ

Example: c:\Program Files (x86)\conpal\LAN Crypt\Administration

• Due to the 32 bit DLLs used, the dotnet SDK must also be installed in the x86 variant.
• The example program StartFirstHere is set up for dotnet core 3.1. If you use dotnet 6.0, you have to change the TargetFramework entry to ‘net6.0’ in the project file ‘StartFirstHere.csproj’.
• When using the sample programs, the path to the API dlls in the respective script must be adjusted for an LCA installation outside the conpal default path.

 

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_410_ahdeu.pdf in German language, at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/en/admin/lc_410_aheng.pdf in English language and at

https://docs.lancrypt.com/fr/admin/lc_410_ahfra.pdf in French language. Please note, the French manual will be published delayed, for the time being use the English manual

Updates for the context-sensitive help are made available via our support portal if necessary.

 

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_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 4.00.2 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

• Administration API:"EnumSubGroups does not show all sub groups of the root group for security officers other than the MSO (LC-1871)"

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

conpal LAN Crypt 4.00.1 is in focus a maintenance release and brings support for W10 20H2. If not referenced in the sections New in conpal LAN Crypt Admin release 4.00.1, changes in 4.00.1, Bugfixes in 4.00.1 the release notes for LAN Crypt 4.00 remain valid.

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.

Database

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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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.