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2022-22-July

Release Version: PK Protect July 2022

General Availability Date: July 22, 2022

Introduction

The following ‘minor’ release provides new product functionality, resolution to customer reported issues and other general improvements to the PKWARE software.

Updated Components and Versions

PKWARE Component

New Version

PK Endpoint Manager

v19.3.102

PK Endpoint Agent - Persistent Data Encryption (PDE) Agent

v17.30.0011

PK Transparent Server Agent (TDE)

v3.80.6

PKWARE SDK

Java 2020.2.1 / .NET 2020.2.4

PK Protect Mobile App for iOS

2.0.0

PK Protect for Intune Mobile App for iOS

2.0.0

PK Protect Mobile App for Android

2.0.0

PK Protect for Intune Mobile App for Android

2.0.0

 

PK Endpoint Manager / PK Endpoint Agent Application Version Compatibility

PEM Version

Archive Client Application Versions

 PEM v19.3.102

  July 2022

Endpoint Agent: 17.30.0011 (July ’22) 17.20.0011 (Apr ’22), 17.10.0017 (Jan ’22), and 17.00.0011 (Sept ’21)   

Transparent Server Agent (TDE): v3.80.6

Supported 3rd Party Platforms

The following PKWARE and 3rd Party products and versions listed below represent those which have been tested for quality, interoperability, and functional operation. Customers are strongly encouraged to maintain their environment in accordance with the versions and dependencies listed below, to avoid unforeseen issues with compatibility or unexpected behavior.


PK Endpoint Manager

Operating System Type

Version

Microsoft Windows

Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012, 2012 R2

Browser Type

Version

Edge

Edge 97.x

Firefox

102.0.x

Google Chrome

103.x

Safari

15

Database Type

Version

PostgreSQL

12.5

MSSQL

SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012

Web Server

Version

Internet Information Server (IIS)

IIS 10.0, 8.5, 8.0, 7.5

PK Endpoint Agent

Operating System Type

Version

 Microsoft Windows

Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2012 R2

Windows 11, 10, 8.1

 MacOS

Monterey (12), Big Sur (11) (with M1 chip – using Rosetta 2), Catalina (10.15)  

 Linux – RedHat

RedHat 5 or greater   

 Linux – SUSE

10 and greater on x86, and x86_64

 Linux - Ubuntu

14.04 (LTS) and greater on X86 and X86_64

 UNIX – IBM AIX

7L version 7.1 (7100-00) or higher, 6L Version 6.1 (6100-00) or higher with required patches

 UNIX - Solaris

10 or greater on UltraSPARC and X86

 UNIX – HPUX

11iv2 with patches

 IBM z/OS  

Software: z/OS 2.4, z/OS 2.3, z/OS 2.2, z/OS 2.1, z/OS 1.13             

Hardware: z10-EC, z10-BC, z-10, z196, z114, zEC12, zBC12,

z13 (2964), z13 (BC (2965)), z14, zR1, z15



 IBM i

Software: IBM i 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1

Hardware: Power 7, 8 and 9

Operating System Type - Mobile

Version

PK Protect for iOS

15

PK Protect for Android

11

SDK                                                                      

 Language

Version

 Java

 v2019.7.1

Dependencies:

-      Java 8 or higher JRE

 Application Operating System

Version

 MacOS

Monterey (12), Big Sur (11)

 Windows

Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2012 R2

Windows 10, 8.1 (64-bit)

 Linux – RedHat

RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 (64-bit)

 Linux – SUSE

Linux Enterprise Server 12 (64-bit)

 Linux – Ubuntu

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Language

Version

  .NET

  v2020.2.4

Dependencies:

-      .NET Framework 4.6.1 and higher on Windows

-      .NET Core 2.1 on all platforms (LTS release from Microsoft)

 Application Operating System

Version

 Windows

Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2012 R2

Windows 10, 8.1 (32-bit + 64-bit)

 MacOS

Monterey (12), Big Sur (11)

 Linux – RedHat

RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 (64-bit)

 Linux – Ubuntu

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Other PKWARE Components

 Component

Version

PK Transparent Server Agent (TDE) - Server

Windows Server 2016, 2012, 2012 R2

PK Transparent Desktop Agent (TDE) – Desktop

Windows 11, 10, 8.1

PK Protect Reader – Windows

Windows 8.1 and higher

PK Protect Reader – macOS

macOS 10.13 and higher  


Features and Improvements

The following capabilities have been added to the Manager, Agent or both in the current release.

PK Endpoint Manager Manager

PK Endpoint Manager

Summary

Appliance / Windows

Version 19.3.102

  • Local Caching of User and Group Information
    • PK for Endpoints now caches user and group information from Microsoft Active Directory in the local PEM database.
    • This allows for local look ups instead of having to connect with and obtain information from the live Active Directory instance each time user / group information needs to be looked up and/or verified.
    • PEM syncs with the live Active Directory at pre-defined intervals, however also supports a ‘sync Accounts (users)’ and ‘Sync Groups’ function to provide and on-demand synchronization with the live Active Directory instance.
  • Contingency Feature Updates
    • A new checkbox has been added to the Contingency Users feature, allowing an Admin to explicitly turn on or off, the feature.
    • If enabled, this feature will allow defined users to decrypt any files encrypted with any key from this point it was enabled, forward .
    • If disabled, the contingency public key will be ‘deactivated’ and the members of the policy will not be able to decrypt previously encrypted files (with the prior contingency key) nor will they be able to decrypt newly encrypted files.
    • If re-enabled it will re-instate the prior, disabled contingency public key. All members will be able to decrypt files, encrypted with that prior, original key; and newly encrypted files after the feature was re-enabled.
    • While the feature was disabled / paused, those files will not be able to be decrypted by a contingency group member.
  • Execute CSR (Certificate Signing Request) from the PEM   
    • The PK Endpoints product requires a valid SSL certificate to be used with the product. In prior versions of the PEM, the process of making the request for a certificate to be generated was executed through the appliance console.
    • A new capability has been added to the PEM on the ‘System’ > ‘SSL’ page to generate the request directly from the PEM UI.
  • Suppressing the list of all scope entries in the UI table views
    • The scope columns in the table views for assignments and community keys, can contain many entries that cause the field to expand greatly.
    • This field has been modified to only show the first ten, then reference ‘... and xx more’; so the field doesn’t fully expand.
  • Comments fields added to primary configuration fields
    • A ‘comments’ section has been added to the ‘Discovery’, ‘File Filters’, ‘Patterns’, and ‘Assignments configuration pages.
    • Comments can be used to document the purpose, scope and intent of the configuration or provide other notes that can be useful to administrators.

PK Endpoint Agent

Summary

Windows, Mac, Linux

Version 17.30.0011

Features

  • Contingency Feature Updates
    • A new checkbox has been added to the Contingency Users feature, allowing an Admin to explicitly turn on or off, the feature.
    • If enabled, this feature will allow defined users to decrypt any files encrypted with any key from this point it was enabled, forward. 
    • If disabled, the contingency public key will be ‘deactivated’ and the members of the policy will not be able to decrypt previously encrypted files (with the prior contingency key) nor will they be able to decrypt newly encrypted files.
    • If re-enabled it will re-instate the prior, disabled contingency public key. All members will be able to decrypt files, encrypted with that prior, original key; and newly encrypted files after the feature was re-enabled.
    • While the feature was disabled / paused, those files will not be able to be decrypted by a contingency group member.

 

Fixed Issues

Component

ID

Summary

Details

Affected Version

PEM

MGR-4651

Provisional Accounts allowed to be scoped in some policies it shouldn't be allowed

MFA/Unmanaged Accounts

19.2+

PEM

MGR-4607

Identities Accounts Search Usability issue

Repeated Searches could cause the browser to navigate backwards many pages

19.1+

PEM

MGR-4674

Security Vulnerability with BackupConfig endpoint

Unprotected Certificate was being included in the backup package. See JIRA for more details

before 19.0+

PEM

MGR-4707

Timestamp Visual issue for Tasks

Mismatch in showing UTC versus Local Time

 

Client

ARC-2976

Authentication Policy Check for computers not joined to any domain

These machines could get stuck only trying to do IWA and not prompting the user to enter credentials

17.2

Client

ARC-2978

AuditLogPolicy was only being used on Windows

The user policy was being fetched but falling back to the default policy

17.2


Implementation Notes

Component

Summary

Details

Affected Version

PEM / Appliance

When executing an upgrade, the OS upgrade must be executed prior to the PEM upgrade

The July release the product has been updated to support .NET 6. The OS upgrade is the component that installs .NET 6. Therefore the OS upgrade must be executed first.

 19.3.102

PK Protect / App-V Deployments

Before starting the App-V sequencer (and installing the PK Protect client), the following registry key needs to be set:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PKWARE\SmartCrypt\UI]


"CtxMenu"=dword:00000001


This makes the PK Protect installer activate the legacy Windows Explorer integration instead of the new Windows Explorer integration. Immediately after the App-V sequencer installs the PK Protect client (and before you tell it that you're done installing), the following registry key needs to be set:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PKWARE\SmartCrypt]

"InstallPackage"=dword:00000000

This stops the PK Protect Agent from trying to install the new Windows 11 package on startup (since it won't work in App-V).

19.3.102


PK Endpoint Manager Appliance – OS and Major Packages

For a full list of the packages included in your appliance, see the Systems/Packages page.

 

PKWARE Enterprise Manager Virtual Appliance

Package / OS

Version

Ubuntu

20.04.4 LTS  

Dotnet-host

6.0.6-1

Dotnet-runtime

3.1.26-1

Apache2

2.4.41-4ubuntu3.12

Postgresql

12+214ubuntu0.1

Openssl

1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.15

Python3

3.8.2-0ubuntu2

 

PKWARE Software Checksums

New PEM Updates:

Type

Sha256 Checksum

Windows Installer

7EAADDE662BFFCDFFAF6AF8C1AD16813E4567EECDE06D717623FF19498E20002


Appliance Upgrade

F21CD9E20727A42A545938DE53B349441D07E1C4CA24288F3540043731FAA683


Appliance OS Upgrade

C1886933D1CAEC4CB1E897F369357E15F3645DD02677407294570EC7EE6D3C21

 

 

Base PEM VM:

Format

Sha256 Checksum

OVA

A7D372935FD5FFEDB21603355898C12E37562945D327B9FD608ED51865D44404

 

QCOW2

8B5474BDBE96BB9D0A00CE142BD0CAADA5FE2BC87CC82C74A47134AB42B0E5DE

 

VHD

E2503B080E858F10DADBD340FD8B931535AE07D3DB9E7BA017C5C3121CBC816D

 

 

PEM Supporting Software:

Product

Checksum

PowerShell Azure App Helper (Create App)

E7CE0827A46B9B062EB2B74DAD0FF8A184A31A5CEF7C6F13DBE73D9271F581BE


PowerShell Azure App Helper (Delete App)

189BBFB48022FCE61146E3FA66BAD3E438B70D816B6EFB77CABEBB185207DAB8


Elasticsearch 7.9.2

1EAF78D94C37EA8ACECF0B2702FC71E54E2A73259CD777056FA92361D8EB0890

 

AdoptOpenJDK 11

6EB277A3E9305FDF380900D20F4EF7A474F13FDBC92F7709B57945F6FFDC80FC


 

PK Endpoint Agent (Archive Agent):

Platform

Checksum

Windows Masking 64-bit

F98B2DBE37EE752EA082B6D7F06BA47CB047959AF3E04CC33E10D00ED537C1C7

macOS

D299E8C45A4CDD27F2243360842FB470D71D423AE6AB587B333DB3E0A8E79947

deb 32-bit

B4A33275C98C615175E07CF2694F7FF50812ED457313382B79D4A960549683A4


deb 64-bit

6181CFB03BCF5168ABFB9E1A8D265EEC418D2019F8179FD59531090CB602C2B4


rpm 32-bit

2276170F22EEC9E69033CB3766FBD480625821CEA5EB3BCB454C5273B9F06712


rpm 64-bit

EEC50D4381396073F59FB554FF92DF8FD0DAC0109157776C2D906FC6A7EA1FF5


Linux Discovery Supplemental Package

974590AECFBFB1B14C6F1B6791FE0FAE8D9BEDEA877654AC7BA629CEE1912287

aix bff

1FA07F0EA88D5B5AFC41473272366C502CE7E9E893974CCEC5A25A13B8B7E122


sun4u pkg

12CB51DBFF6C95AF37194047BD0EBAD6987E0F74FC9EC879976A3B37B637E062


i86pc pkg

467B4B1DDA70EB90BA10B543B8A6892604F74140BA9C7162991A891373A58BF5


 

Windows Deployment JSONs:

Type

Checksum

Upgrading from 16.9 or newer

C1369024AFF0031F1B825C8D05C48AB291D39A76D4FCC7B8533FA44A1CB8BBA0


Upgrading from 16.8 or older

E53079DE80E20E26C4DDBF6023899550CAAA0618DE73A8FCBB1B19081218A626

  

Transparent Server and Desktop Agent (TDE)

Download

Checksum

DesktopTDE 64-bit

C90F03D9FE4615CC567D8ED185D710A7CEA07323819420293258D1BCAE439940


DesktopTDE 32-bit

CBC00E41949A515534A10D8FE25236E4CCAD0C6927B1B0AB561F5E6ABFCDF79B


TDE 64-bit

5919029843031A5182C86B33B985AEF90F18B4BF72FDCBF57058DE0AA59EFD9A


TDE 32-bit

BBAD65C2F11A806E76A329F8289CF338385BBBAB783C247872629750459EAEE3


 

Classification

Installers

Checksum

Boldon James Manual Installer

BA433550CD65DD99BF44527FF1D68B532C0DD5D59A8C9F10F71062DE8A5D1FEB


PKWARE Bundled Installer

CB77049DF9935C33401C996660D674A32D23B841A8748DA23716F224160411A3


 

Related documentation


Questions and Support

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