DSM Accelerator [4.19] - July 20, 2023

1. Overview

This article provides an overview of new features, general improvements, and resolved issues in the Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) Accelerator 4.19 release.

2. New Features/Improvements

• DSM Accelerator Webservice:

  • Added Guidelines to persist logs for DSM Accelerator Webservice (JIRA: PROD-5641). For more details, refer to the Administration Guide: Fortanix DSM Accelerator Webservice External logging Setup Guide.

  • Improved log messages for detailed logging of encryption and decryption operations in the DSM Accelerator Webservice (JIRA: PM-12).

  • Added support for Batch Sign and Batch Verify operations in DSM Accelerator Webservice (JIRA: PROD-6849).

  For more details, refer to Developer's Guide: DSM Accelerator Webservice.

• DSM Accelerator JCE Provider:

  • Added support for the FF1 format-preserving encryption mode for tokenization in the DSM Accelerator JCE Provider (JIRA: PROD-6869). 

  • Improved log messages for detailed logging of encryption and decryption operations in the DSM Accelerator JCE Provider (JIRA: PM-12).

  For more details, refer to Developer's Guide: DSM Accelerator JCE Provider.  

  NOTE

  Until DSM Accelerator release 4.18, users of the DSM Accelerator JCE Provider needed to download the following:

  • DSM Accelerator JCE provider JAR file

  • Java SDK JAR file

  • libdsmaccelerator.so file

  Starting in DSM Accelerator release 4.19, the DSM Accelerator JCE Provider and Java SDK have been consolidated into a single JAR file. So, you need to download the following:

  • A consolidated DSM Accelerator JAR file

  • libdsmaccelerator.so file

• DSM Accelerator PKCS#11:

  • Improved log messages for detailed logging of encryption and decryption operations in the DSM Accelerator PKCS#11 (JIRA: PM-12).

3. Bug Fixes

• The retry mechanism does not work as expected in the DSM Accelerator Webservice (JIRA: PROD-7068).

4. Known Issues

• When the Batch Sign operation is performed for Curve Ed25519/X25519 in DSM Accelerator Webservice, the status code is showing as 500 instead of 400 (JIRA: PROD-7007).

4. Fortanix Data Security Manager-Accelerator Performance Statistics

4.1 Runtime Environment

NOTE

• The following table lists the standard recommended runtime environment. You can choose a higher configuration for better performance.

• DSM Accelerator was run in the runtime environment listed below for performance testing.

3.2 DSM Accelerator Webservice

NOTE

The performance numbers below are captured with a single node; if you need higher performance or throughput, then we recommend adding multiple nodes.

4.3 Additional Modes