Certain attribute values returned by the LDAP server maybe represented in binary. Set this setting to a comma separated list of attributes that are expected to be binary. The connector will return a hex encoded version of the value in the result for each attribute defined here. For instance the objectGUID attribute value may be represented as "A4 A8 89 11 6F BC 11 46 A9 F6 FD BD CB 76 8F F3".

By default, the connector will indicate that the type for an LDAPAttribute is an empty string if the previous LDAPAttribute was of the same type. When this configuration setting is set to True, the adapter will include the type name of the LDAPAttribute even if it is the same as the previous element.

For example, when False (default), the resulting xml for a search that contains three values for the "objectClass" type would look like this:

<LDAPAttribute Type="objectClass" Value="top" />
<LDAPAttribute Type="" Value="person" />
<LDAPAttribute Type="" Value="organizationalPerson" />

<LDAPAttribute Type="objectClass" Value="top" />
<LDAPAttribute Type="objectClass" Value="person" />
<LDAPAttribute Type="objectClass" Value="organizationalPerson" />

If set to true, the connector will reuse the context if and only if the following criteria are met:

• The target host name is the same.
• The system cache entry has not expired (default timeout is 10 hours).
• The application process that calls the function is the same.
• The logon session is the same.
• The instance of the connector is the same.

This minimum cipher strength largely dependent on the security modules installed on the system. If the cipher strength specified is not supported, an error will be returned when connections are initiated.

Please note that this setting contains the minimum cipher strength requested from the security library.

Use this setting with caution. Requesting a lower cipher strength than necessary could potentially cause serious security vulnerabilities in your application.

The enabled cipher suites to be used in SSL negotiation.

By default, the enabled cipher suites will include all available ciphers ("*").

The special value "*" means that the connector will pick all of the supported cipher suites. If SSLEnabledCipherSuites is set to any other value, only the specified cipher suites will be considered.

Multiple cipher suites are separated by semicolons.

Example values when UseInternalSecurityAPI is False (default):

// The "Other" property could contain ONE of the following lines:
SSLEnabledCipherSuites=*
SSLEnabledCipherSuites=CALG_AES_256
SSLEnabledCipherSuites=CALG_AES_256;CALG_3DES

• CALG_3DES
• CALG_3DES_112
• CALG_AES
• CALG_AES_128
• CALG_AES_192
• CALG_AES_256
• CALG_AGREEDKEY_ANY
• CALG_CYLINK_MEK
• CALG_DES
• CALG_DESX
• CALG_DH_EPHEM
• CALG_DH_SF
• CALG_DSS_SIGN
• CALG_ECDH
• CALG_ECDH_EPHEM
• CALG_ECDSA
• CALG_ECMQV
• CALG_HASH_REPLACE_OWF
• CALG_HUGHES_MD5
• CALG_HMAC
• CALG_KEA_KEYX
• CALG_MAC
• CALG_MD2
• CALG_MD4
• CALG_MD5
• CALG_NO_SIGN
• CALG_OID_INFO_CNG_ONLY
• CALG_OID_INFO_PARAMETERS
• CALG_PCT1_MASTER
• CALG_RC2
• CALG_RC4
• CALG_RC5
• CALG_RSA_KEYX
• CALG_RSA_SIGN
• CALG_SCHANNEL_ENC_KEY
• CALG_SCHANNEL_MAC_KEY
• CALG_SCHANNEL_MASTER_HASH
• CALG_SEAL
• CALG_SHA
• CALG_SHA1
• CALG_SHA_256
• CALG_SHA_384
• CALG_SHA_512
• CALG_SKIPJACK
• CALG_SSL2_MASTER
• CALG_SSL3_MASTER
• CALG_SSL3_SHAMD5
• CALG_TEK
• CALG_TLS1_MASTER
• CALG_TLS1PRF

// The "Other" property could contain ONE of the following lines:
SSLEnabledCipherSuites=*
SSLEnabledCipherSuites=TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
SSLEnabledCipherSuites=TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA;TLS_DH_ANON_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
• TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
• TLS_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
• TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
• TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA

If SSLEnabledProtocols is configured to use TLS 1.3 the following values are supported:

• TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
• TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

SSLEnabledCipherSuites is used together with SSLCipherStrength.

Used to enable/disable the supported security protocols.

Not all supported protocols are enabled by default (the value of this setting is 4032). If you want more granular control over the enabled protocols, you can set this property to the binary 'OR' of one or more of the following values:

Note: TLS 1.1 and TLS1.2 support are only available starting with Windows 7.

Note: Enabling TLS 1.3 will automatically set UseInternalSecurityAPI to True.

This setting specifies whether the transport log contains the full certificate chain. By default this value is False and only the leaf certificate will be present.

If set to True all certificates returned by the server will be present in the transport log. This includes the leaf certificate, any intermediate certificate, and the root certificate.

Note: When UseInternalSecurityAPI is set to True this value is automatically set to True. This is needed for proper validation when using the internal provider.

The following flags are defined (specified in hexadecimal notation). They can be or-ed together to exclude multiple conditions:

This setting specifies the allowed server certificate signature algorithms when UseInternalSecurityAPI is True and SSLEnabledProtocols is set to allow TLS 1.2.

When specified the connector will verify that the server certificate signature algorithm is among the values specified in this setting. If the server certificate signature algorithm is unsupported the connector will fail with an error.

The format of this value is a comma separated list of hash-signature combinations. For instance:

// The "Other" could contain ALL of these lines:
UseInternalSecurityAPI=true
SSLEnabledProtocols=3072
TLS12SignatureAlgorithms=sha1-rsa,sha1-dsa,sha256-rsa,sha256-dsa

In order to not restrict the server's certificate signature algorithm, specify an empty string as the value for this setting, which will cause the signature_algorithms TLS 1.2 extension to not be sent.

This setting specifies a comma separated list of named groups used in TLS 1.2 for ECC.

The default value is ecdhe_secp256r1,ecdhe_secp384r1,ecdhe_secp521r1.

When using TLS 1.2 and UseInternalSecurityAPI is set to True, the values refer to the supported groups for ECC. The following values are supported:

• "ecdhe_secp256r1" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp384r1" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp521r1" (default)

This setting specifies a comma separated list of named groups used in TLS 1.3 for key exchange. The groups specified here will have key share data pregenerated locally before establishing a connection. This can prevent an additional round trip during the handshake if the group is supported by the server.

The default value is set to balance common supported groups and the computational resources required to generate key shares. As a result only some groups are included by default in this setting.

Note: All supported groups can always be used during the handshake even if not listed here, but if a group is used which is not present in this list it will incur an additional round trip and time to generate the key share for that group.

In most cases this setting does not need to be modified. This should only be modified if there is a specific reason to do so.

The default value is ecdhe_x25519,ecdhe_secp256r1,ecdhe_secp384r1,ffdhe_2048,ffdhe_3072

The values are ordered from most preferred to least preferred. The following values are supported:

• "ecdhe_x25519" (default)
• "ecdhe_x448"
• "ecdhe_secp256r1" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp384r1" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp521r1"
• "ffdhe_2048" (default)
• "ffdhe_3072" (default)
• "ffdhe_4096"
• "ffdhe_6144"
• "ffdhe_8192"

This setting holds a comma separated list of allowed signature algorithms. Possible values are:

• "rsa_pkcs1_sha256" (default)
• "rsa_pkcs1_sha384" (default)
• "rsa_pkcs1_sha512" (default)

This setting specifies a comma separated list of named groups used in TLS 1.3 for key exchange. This setting should only be modified if there is a specific reason to do so.

The default value is ecdhe_x25519,ecdhe_x448,ecdhe_secp256r1,ecdhe_secp384r1,ecdhe_secp521r1,ffdhe_2048,ffdhe_3072,ffdhe_4096,ffdhe_6144,ffdhe_8192

The values are ordered from most preferred to least preferred. The following values are supported:

• "ecdhe_x25519" (default)
• "ecdhe_x448" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp256r1" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp384r1" (default)
• "ecdhe_secp521r1" (default)
• "ffdhe_2048" (default)
• "ffdhe_3072" (default)
• "ffdhe_4096" (default)
• "ffdhe_6144" (default)
• "ffdhe_8192" (default)

If AbsoluteTimeout is set to True, any method which does not complete within Timeout seconds will be aborted. By default, AbsoluteTimeout is False, and the timeout is an inactivity timeout.

The LocalHost configuration contains the name of the local host as obtained by the Gethostname() system call, or if the user has assigned an IP address, the value of that address.

In multihomed hosts (machines with more than one IP interface) setting LocalHost to the value of an interface will make the connector initiate connections (or accept in the case of server connectors) only through that interface.

If the connector is connected, the LocalHost configuration shows the IP address of the interface through which the connection is made in internet dotted format (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd). In most cases, this is the address of the local host, except for multihomed hosts (machines with more than one IP interface).

When true, the socket will send all data that is ready to send at once. When false, the socket will send smaller buffered packets of data at small intervals. This is known as the Nagle algorithm.

By default, this config is set to false.

By default the connector will use the system security libraries to perform cryptographic functions. Setting this to True tells the connector to use the internal implementation instead of using the system's security API.