Checking Whether TLS 1.2 is Supported for Certificate Licensing

Support for TLS 1.2 is required to be able to activate certificate licensing to run the following products:

  • PSCAD v4.6.3 (Update 4) and newer
  • PRSIM v1.0.0 and newer
  • The PSCAD Initializer v1.0.0 and newer
  • Enerplot v1.1.0 and newer
  • FACE >v2.0

The support for TLS 1.2 must be enabled on the computer running the product, as well as in your network, firewall, gateway, router, policy etc.

To determine whether TLS 1.2 is fully supported for licensing the above products with certificate licensing, a utility can be used as follows:

  • First, follow the steps listed in this article (Step 5) to enable TLS 1.2 locally on your computer.

  • Download the latest TLS 12 Tester utility:
    http://updater.pscad.com/utilities/Tls12Tester.zip

  • Extract (unzip) the file to a temporary folder.

  • Right click on "TlsTester (461).exe", and select "Run as Administrator".

  • When the TlsTester detector displays, select Test | licensing.pscad.com.

  • When the test is completed, results similar to the following will display if TLS 1.0 is fully supported:

      Server
        http://licensing.pscad.com:80/Licensing/$(ServicePath)Service

      Connection test results
        Status: success

      Scanning System event log entries...

      A TLS client handshake completed successfully. The negotiated cryptographic parameters are as follows:
        Protocol version: TLS 1.0
        CipherSuite: 0xc030 (TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_sha384)
        Exchange strength: 255 bits
        Context handle: 0x1bb985f1990

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