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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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Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP)

Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This document proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for alternative user exit options beyond th...
12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication.

Request for Enhancement (RFE): OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. OIDC i...
12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Enhance security and stability bu introducing Customer level session limit to safeguard performance.

The Proposal is to introduce customer level session rate limiting in SSP to enhance stability and security. We can add a enhancement by monitoring session creation rates per customer- identified bu login ID, certificate or IP-SSP can enforce confi...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Support OIDC/Oauth 2.0 in SSP

Modern authentication requirements need support for OIDC/Oauth 2.0 alongside the existing SAML 2.0 support. Please extend SSP to provide this flavor of access as well.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders. If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry. We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

SPE Transformation Service adding CDATA for Process Data update

CDATA is adding a prefix in process data for ITXA transformation when actual data contains "&" in the input file which is causing the issue. Currently, with SI transformation/translation service, the prefix is not getting added. However, in...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

SSP FIPS mode enable should work with HSM device

Sterling Secure proxy communication failing with SSL error when we enable FIFS mode and SSL certs are stored under HSM device. below is the SSL error: Short Text => TLS/SSL handshake failure, reason=Handshake failure , GSK codes (init/validate)...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Under review

Support storage of private ssh key in HSM

Mastercard's File Transfer System uses SSP, CM and SEAS for SFTP Server. The current configuration does not comply with our policy that requires SSH private key to be stored in a Hardware Security Module (HSM). These keys are configured in CM UI a...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration