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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Allow CD netmap in SSP multiple hosts/IP addresses under the same s-node name

Allow multiple hosts/IP addresses per CD node on SSP netmap. Currently in SSP v343 product, CD node and its address are 1:1 mapping. We currently have 4 CD server adapters on backend SBI 2 node cluster. These SBI CDSA all share the same CD node na...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Support for EBICS protocol/authentication in the DMZ

To enable EBICS protocol to be authenticated in the DMZ , SSP with SEAS using either LDAP or Sterling B2B Integrator (similar model to SSO token authentication to avoid duplicating authentication).
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

: Message Version Number, Message Release Number and Controlling Agency values should pass from original Business document when we use wildcard in 997/CONTRL envelope

Currently the 997/control envelopes are generating with sender/receiver which are passing to original Business document data when we are using wildcard (*) in sender CONTRL /997 . But the Message Version Number, Message Release Number and Controll...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Encoding format data expecting from the codelist or transformation using SPE Adapter.

Currently SPE adapter returns the data with UTF8 encoding by default for the corresponding ITX external data harness functions supported by ITXA. These returned values from SPE in a string format as UFT8 encoding by default to the Transformation E...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

We'd like to propose the introduction of support for configuring multiple Netmap entries for mailboxes that require access from multiple IP ranges.

A partner requires IP restrictions for their mailbox. However, their access originates from multiple locations, resulting in connections from various IP addresses. Unfortunately, the current version of Secure Proxy Engine doesn't support associati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Option for TLSv1.1 or Higher in FTPS Netmap

Request to either add an option for TLSv1.1 or higher under FTPS netmap > Security > Secure Connection > Security Setting for a FTPS adapter, or remove SSLv3 and TLSv1 from the "SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, or TLSv1.2" option under the same loc...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add successful security handshake information to the audit log

Add information to the SSP audit log regarding what was negotiated during a successful security handshake. For SSL/TLS this would include the protocol version(SSLv3.0, TLSv1.0, etc.), the cipher agreed upon and the client source IP. For SFTP/SSH t...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

ITXA - improve the EDI X12 27x transaction

To Support EDI 27x transactions and follow X12 HIPAA Guidelines. My company Prolifics Inc is working with the client who is BlueShield of California (Health Insurance provider). We are working in a project where we have to deal with the EDI 27x (2...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration