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What's new in SecureBlackbox 7.1

(Also check what's new in SecureBlackbox 7.0 comparing to previous versions)

In this major release we introduced numerous changes and improvements into PKI, SSH, SFTP and OpenPGP packages. The most significant additions and improvements are listed below. Besides these major additions and improvements we have made many other changes, compatibility improvements and fixes. Complete change list is available in <SecureBlackbox>\changes.txt file (the file is located in the folder, to which you installed SecureBlackbox, and is also available as a separate download from SecureBlackbox web pages).

1. General changes:
   • Added support for AS2 transfer protocol.
   • Added GSSAPI/SSPI support to SSH and simple SFTP components.
   • Simple components (namely, TElSimpleSSLClient, TElSimpleFTPSClient, TElHTTPSClient, TElSMTPClient, TElSimpleSSHClient, TElSimpleSFTPClient and TElSocket) now report the amounts of data being transferred.
2. OpenPGP standard:
   • Added support for generation of SFX (self-extracting) protected files.
   • Implemented special handling for buggy cleartext signatures created by PGPDesktop software.
3. SSH family of protocols:
   • Added GSSAPI user authentication and key exchange support to client-side components.
   • Added high-level ExecuteCommand method to TElSimpleSSHClient class.
   • Implemented an option for forcing UTF8 on SFTP versions prior to 4.
4. PKI components:
   • Introduced PKCS#11 SSH key storage component.
   • Added support for on-demand token access mode (no persistent token connection needed).
   • Added support for synchronous slot event monitoring mode.
   • Added SetKeyMaterial to TElX509Certificate and TElCertificateRequest classes, allowing to provide a predefined key material for certificate/request generation.
   • Implemented optional Win32 cryptographic context caching (results in significant performance increase of recurrent system certificate-based operations).
5. PDF engine:
   • Timestamping of existing signatures is now supported.
   • Added numerous workarounds for badly formatted documents.

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