Package com.ibm.di.server

Class FIPSCompliantMode

java.lang.Object

com.ibm.di.server.FIPSCompliantMode

public class FIPSCompliantMode
extends java.lang.Object

This is the main class which enables the Federal Information Processing Standard(FIPS) in IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator. In order to be FIPS compliant a specific cryptogaphic and SSL providers must be set in correct order to be used by IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator. To turn on FIPS mode in IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator, users must set the "com.ibm.di.server.fipsmode.on" property to true in global.properties file. This will enforce the IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Server to arrange the correct providers in the desired order at start up.

Since:

7.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FIPSCompliantMode()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static void	initializeFIPSMode()	This method arranges the security providers in the correct order for FIPS compliant mode.
static boolean	isFIPSenabled()	This method retrieves information whether FIPS mode was successfully initialized.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FIPSCompliantMode

public FIPSCompliantMode()

Method Detail

initializeFIPSMode

public static void initializeFIPSMode()
                               throws java.lang.Exception

This method arranges the security providers in the correct order for FIPS compliant mode. An Exception will be thrown if the reorder of the providers fail.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if the providers rearrangement fails.

isFIPSenabled

public static boolean isFIPSenabled()

This method retrieves information whether FIPS mode was successfully initialized.

Returns:

true, if nothing went wrong when setting up the provider for FIPS mode and false otherwise