I need to know what versions of TLS are supported on all applicable interfaces on a DataDomain system (data, replication, and management interfaces). Trying to determine how a DataDomain would respond to a security scanner looking for older TLS versions.
Note that as part of ongoing enhancements to security, DDOS 6.1 and DDMC 6.1 (release numbering has been made the same starting with 6.1, so the next code family for DDMC after DDMC 2.0.1 is DDMC 6.1) have had TLS left as the only available security protocol, and while it supports versions 1.0 through 1.2, these releases force the use of algorithms only available for TLS 1.2 only. That makes it impossible for a DDMC 6.1 to communicate with managed DDOS 5.7.3.0 and earlier, despite that being allowed in the compatibility table. See DDMC 6.1 and later unable to manage DD running DDOS 5.7 earlier than 5.7.4.0 for more details.
DDMC 6.1 (which shares the version numbering and code base with DDOS 6.1) was supposedly able to manage and handle DDs running on any DDOS 5.7.x release.
However, it seems testing conducted did not include all possible DDOS 5.7.x versions, and it was later found out DDMC 6.1 was not able to manage remote DDs running DDOS 5.7.3.0 or earlier.
With DDMC 6.1 changes were made to the supported security algorithms used for communication, so that only TLS 1.2 was allowed. The reason for doing so is both SSL 3 as well as TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are known to have weaknesses which could make it possible for an attacker to more easily than designed snoop into traffic.
rhatguy1
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Posted January 26th, 2017 18:00
Thanks...can TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 be completely disabled or are they disabled by default in 5.7.3 onward?