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Sterling Secure Proxy

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Sterling Secure Proxy

Quantum computing presents a significant long-term risk to several widely deployed cryptographic algorithms currently used to protect data in transit, including RSA, ECDHE, and DHE, which form the foundation of modern TLS implementations. The imme...
2 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Submitted

Sterling Secure Proxy Known host key store configuration to support multiple public keys of a client

In general, Linux/Unix SSH/SFTP clients can support multiple know host keys for the same DNS host and port. When different servers behind a load balancer present different host keys, the client typically stores and validates multiple entries in th...

Forward Proxy to support fetching private key from B2Bi with SEAS

The existing feature only support to fetch the Private key from LDAP which will be use as identity key when a connection is being initiated to remote user from SSP. This enhancement is to support a mechanism to fetch the user identity key(private ...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Future consideration

Add support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 together in same SSL configuration

Adding support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in the same SSL configuration allows clients to automatically negotiate the highest protocol version they support. This provides a smooth transition to TLS 1.3 while maintaining compatibility with existi...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Under review

UI Branding feature for SSPcm Dashboard

Most customers have their own branding and styling requirements for the different user interfaces they use. At present, there is no support for UI branding customization in SSPcm UI. Nowadays, it is a common customer requirement to customize the U...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Under review

Test compatibility windows server 2025 and SSP

Our organization want to migrate from windows server 2019 to windows server 2025 by 4th quarter of 2026

The ability to disable a specific node

It would be nice to be able disable a node, within any netmap, without having to make any change to the configuration. Maybe just a "button" to disable.
20 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Under review

Enable STDOUT logging for SSP

We urgently request stdout logging capability for containerized deployments of SSP and SEAS. Currently SSP and SEAS are configured to write logs to filesystem only (PVC), which prevents native container log aggregation on Kubernetes and OpenShift....
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other Future consideration

Forward Proxy to support private key from B2Bi without SEAS

The existing feature currently supports fetching the private key only from LDAP, which is then used as the identity key when SSP initiates a connection to a remote partner. This enhancement request is to support a mechanism where the partner’s ide...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Future consideration

SSP should have a setting to configure "allowlist" usernames which should accept regex express for allowed user names

The SSP must provide a setting to configure, such as a **"Users Allowlist"**, where we can set up a list of usernames and/or a regular expression. This configuration should ensure that the SSP allows connections only from those users that match th...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Future consideration