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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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Support for HTTP CONNECT method

Support for the CONNECT method would help facilitate the use of Secure Proxy as a more generic HTTP proxy. Our particular use case, we need to connect to cloud based object storage from from an on-prem IBM Connect:Direct node, but is not currently...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0

SSP - Resetting engine memory

Currently, SSP engines keep SSP CM configuration in memory. The memory is not cleared until the engine is restarted or a new configuration is pushed. The memory contains secured objects like private keys. These secure objects can be exposed as par...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add support for topologySpreadConstraints to helm chart for SSP engine container.

Need to be able to set the topologySpreadConstraints for the kubernetes PodTopologySpread plugin in the SSP engine helm chart. This option would enable better distribute of multiple SSP engines across availability zones in AWS EKS. I can use pod a...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

add more logging for MAX session /statistics

Better monitoring, prevent issues when MAX sessions are reached.
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Increase buffer size from 262144 to unlimited similar to SFG

Some of our clients when they try connecting through SSP they are facing error requested buffer size (1048576) is larger than max: 262144 When they connect directly to SFG they are able to send without any issue. We request to increase the buffer ...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Please provide an option to retrieve or reset the admin password.

We require a solution to reset or recover the SSP CM admin password, which is essential for exporting and importing configurations across various environments.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Automation of certificate replacement in SSP and SI

As we are replacing SSL certificates more often and validity lengths are shortening we will have to do more certification replacements. I would like a way to automate the certificate replacement within SI and SSP. I would need an automated or scri...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration