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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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Create Locally Authenticated Admin User via Command Line

In the event that our LDAP authentication fails for whatever reason is there any way via the command line to create a locally authenticated admin account so that we could logged back into the application GUI?
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SSP CD node configuration allow selection of multiple secure protocols to allow upshifting like CD for migration efforts

The CD node entry in an SSP netmap does not permit selecting multiple protocols in the Secure+ panel. This inhibits SSP from negotiating properly with CDs where more than one protocol is selected.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Create Config File Separate From Base Files

Each business might have specific needs on how they want the product to preform and may tune their installations differenently from the base install. There should be a way for that to happen without those changes being over written each time they ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Increase the Secure Proxy Alternate Destinations list from 3 to N+ (7 or more)

Our customers have multiple sites that host their CD endpoints and are connected through SSP. We would like the number of Destination Addresses in the CD Netmap configuration increased to support a larger number of alternate addresses. Based on cu...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Certificate Renewal is shown as successful though it is unsuccessful

When the license renewal of Connect:Direct certificate is unsuccessful, no message is shown on GUI or logs. When IBM support is contacted, they replied that the correct logs will be captured in debug mode. As an interim measure, IBM support asked ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Is a defect

Secure Proxy to Provide Optional URI Support

On an SSP HTTP Reverse Proxy, allow optional configuration of a URI, so that traffic can be routed to multiple destinations. The mechanism would allow the adapter to listen on a single port, but then based on URI in the HTTP request, could route t...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add a timeout parameter which trigger alternate destination on SFTP outbound node

On Netmap Outbound Node, it's possible to set an alternate destination node to insure a failover service of the primary node. The alternate destination is used when primary destination address is not reachable on network (network timeout) or if th...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration

Adding TLSv1.2 extensions to support ALPN (Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation) / NPN (Next Protocol Negotiation)

One of our AS2 external trading partners attempted to send sslv2 client hello but the encryption is tlsv1.2
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Functionality to Retain Adapter Status in SSP Application in case of a reboot

In the current version of Sterling Secure Proxy available in the market there is no functionality to retain the Adapter state in case of a reboot. Ideally whenever we restart our SSP Engine Application all the adapters are getting started irrespec...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Secure Proxy support for Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)

We run Pentest's against any external interface which includes Secure Proxy to identify any potential security issues. It was found that Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) is not supported. The server's SSL/TLS configuration does not support Perfect Fo...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration