Thales Data Protection on Demand has made the following changes to how billing and service subscriptions work in DPoD:

• The trial state no longer applies to the tenant, tenants are instead entitled to a 30-day evaluation period for each unique DPoD service type. The trial begins when you first create a new DPoD service of a service type and deleting the service does not stop or pause the trial.
• The Service Elections submission and approval process remains unchanged, but it now triggers the conversion of trial subscriptions to production subscriptions or directly creates production subscriptions. When a service elections form is processed the selected service types become paid subscriptions.
• Service providers, tenant administrators and application owners can review their subscription data using the Subscriptions tab in the DPoD GUI.
• All services of a new service type provisioned after April 15th are "Trial" subscriptions, with a 30-day evaluation. 

Tenants that have an accepted Service Elections form will have the following changes: 

• All paid subscriptions (DPoD Monthly, DPoD Term, Google) will be visible from the Subscriptions tab in the DPoD GUI.
• All services created before April 15th under a service elections form become "Term" (or "Uncommitted" if the Term is expired) subscriptions.
• All services created before April 15th and not under a service elections form become "Uncommitted" subscriptions.

Tenants that do not have an accepted Service Elections form will have the following changes:

• All existing services become "Trial" subscriptions, beginning April 15th, with a 30-day evaluation. 

Note: If your tenant is unable to retrieve and display subscriptions please contact Thales support to resolve the issue. You will be unable to provision new services until the issue is resolved. 

The CipherTrust Data Security Platform is now visible in EU tenants as a beta service offering. Access to the beta service is restricted at this time. The beta service is disabled in all tenants that are not participating in the beta.

For more information about registering for the CipherTrust Data Security Platform beta please contact steve.kingston@thalesgroup.com.

When Max Session Objects goes over 100 the user will now receive the following error message: CKR_MAX_OBJECT_COUNT_EXCEEDED.

Previously there was no session object limit set therefore there was no message sent to the user.

The firmware versions for Luna Cloud HSM Services operating in NA and EU non-FIPS environments have been updated. The current firmware version based on region and FIPS mode are as follows:

• NA FIPS - 1.5
• NA non-FIPS - 2.0
• EU FIPS - 1.5
• EU non-FIPS - 2.0 

Universal Cloning

Universal Cloning (CPv4) is now a supported feature when combining UC 10.5.0 and Firmware 2.0. Universal Cloning can be used for key migration to any trusted Thales HSMs that also support the Universal Cloning protocol.

In order to use the Universal Cloning feature, the following must be true:

• you have a Luna Client at version UC 10.5.0 or newer
• you have Firmware at version 2.0 or newer
• the source partition's security policy allows cloning of private and secret keys

NOTE: You can only clone between initialized partitions, and they must have the same cloning domain (secret), which is provided at the time of initialization.

More info can be found here: Universal Cloning.

As of UC 10.5, the configuration of multiple users will be supported which allows multiple partition slots to be accessed from a single client instance. This allows customers to add multiple UserID's (a combination of unique AuthTokenClientID, AuthTokenClientSecret, AuthTokenConfigURI) without the need to restart the application after the addition of a new UserID. This will enable a service provider to configure multiple UserID's without impacting the service any of the other users in the same UC instance.

The ability to load multiple partitions to the same UserID without impacting service to other users will also be supported. If an attempt is made to add the same partition ID to a different user that will be ignored and a Warning log will be generated.

More info can be found here: "Dynamic Partition Loading for Luna Cloud HSM Services"

The servicePlan field is being made mandatory for service creation when using the API, for example when using POST/service_instances or POST/services.

If you use the API to provision services, you will need to pass a value matching one of the plans listed in the Open Service Broker catalog. For Luna Cloud HSM services, you must pass "single_hsm". Failure to pass a valid plan will result in a 400 error.

See the Thales Documentation Portal for more information about available endpoints and fields.

A new certificate issuer will be used in the European data center for Luna Cloud HSM clients starting in August 2022.

A knowledge base article with a full description of the change is available here. The article contains important information on mandatory changes for users on 10.0 or 10.1 client versions.

This change introduces a new endpoint for validating the certificate status. Please ensure that operating systems hosting the client are able to validate the server certificate status (OCSP/CRL) using port 80. 

Ensure that these certificate revocation lists (CRLs) are accessible from the client machine prior to the planned change in August 2022 to guarantee continuity of service.

Current CRL: http://crl.godaddy.com/gdig2s1-3235.crl
New CRL: http://crl.sectigo.com/SectigoRSAOrganizationValidationSecureServerCA.crl
Platform CRL: http://crl3.digicert.com/ssca-sha2-g7.crl

The firmware versions for Luna Cloud HSM Services operating in EU environments have been updated. The current firmware version based on region and FIPS mode are as follows:

• NA FIPS - 1.4.0
• NA non-FIPS - 1.4.2
• EU FIPS - 1.5
• EU non-FIPS - 1.6 

FW 1.5 includes improvements to the Point to Point encryption service. FW 1.5 also includes the following bug fixes:

• SH-4366 - The firmware can create but not import public+sensitive keys. You must specify both CKA_PRIVATE=1 and CKA_SENSITIVE=1 Key Attributes for all Generated, Derived and Unwrapped keys
• SH-5322 - The firmware crashes when cancelling a multi-part operation. The firmware no longer crashes when cancelling a multi-part operation.
• SH-5595 - Deriving x9.42 DH2 returns CKR_OBJECT_HANDLE_INVALID. Deriving x9.42 DH2 no longer returns CKR_OBJECT_HANDLE_INVALID

FW 1.6 includes all of the improvements from FW1.5 and additional enhancements.

Additional Fields are now Mandatory for Tenant Registration

The following fields are now mandatory for tenant registration:

• Address
• City
• ZIP Code
• State/Province/Region*

* Mandatory if Country is set to United States, Canada, or Australia