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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...

Sterling Secure Proxy

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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 ...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration

Block MFA enabled users access to non-MFA adapters

Hi Team, At present, it is possible to block users at engine level which is useful to block users from logging in. Is it possible to block users if they use particular adapter and allow for others? if not, can we please consider if this can be con...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted