Encryption features are available for IP at no additional cost.
Communications Server Security Level 3 is an optional unpriced feature
and must be ordered.
The encryption features include these capabilities:
- Level 1
- This level of encryption is included in the base of z/OS® V2R1
Communications Server.
- Level 2
- This level of encryption is included in the base of z/OS V2R1
Communications Server and
offers IP security protocol (IPSec) DES and SNMPv3 56-bit DES.
- Level 3
- This
level of encryption is included in the Communications Server Security
Level 3 optional unpriced feature and offers IPSec Triple Data Encryption
Standard (DES) and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AES includes
the AES cipher-block chaining (AES-CBC) and AES Galois Counter (AES-GCM)
modes.