Release Notes
Product Description
CipherTrust Teradata Protection (CTP) provides column-level encryption for Teradata databases. Teradata databases are structured with a Parsing Engine (PE) and multiple Access Module Processors (AMPs), which run on nodes—servers that may also host virtual AMPs (VAMPs) and optionally the PE.
Release Description
This release of CTP includes new features and enhancements listed below.
Features and Enhancements
CipherTrust Teradata Protection (CTP) 6.6.0 now supports Teradata 17.10 and 17.20 on SLES 12 SP3.
Compatibility Information
CipherTrust Manager: 2.1 and later
Teradata: 16.20, 17.0, 17.10, 17.20
Operating System: SLES 12 SP3
Resolved and Known Issues
This section lists the issues fixed in this release. Also, the section lists the issues known to exist in the product at the time of release. The following table defines the severity of the issues listed in this section.
| Severity | Classification | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| C | Critical | No reasonable workaround exists. |
| H | High | Reasonable workaround exists. |
| M | Medium | Medium level priority problems. |
| L | Low | Lowest level priority problems. |
Resolved Issue
There are no resolved issues in this version.
Known Issue
The following issue is known to exist in the product at the time of release.
| Issue | Severity | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| TER-495 | M | VPTD supports Unicode characters up to code point 0xFFFF CTP supports Unicode characters up to 0xFFFF (that is,up to codepoint 65535). The character set range is specified in the profiles.conf file. An error message occurs during an FPE UDF call if the begin/end character set range is beyond 0xFFFF: "500 - Invalid character set specified in configuration file". |
| TER-599 | M | Encrypt FF1 operation fails for tweak of length 1024 FF1 Encryption attempts fail when udfaes is set to off(Normal Mode) and a tweak length of 1024 in configurations using CipherTrust Manager as the key manager. Such encryption attempts work as expected when udfaes is on (Fast Mode). |
