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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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RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Secure Proxy

SSPCM currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a new instance of SSPCM and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful t...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Maintain FIPS support for SSP HSM

JCE FIPS implementation has changed in the JRE shipped with SSP 6.0.2 to add support for TLSv1.3. Require verification that FIPS mode will continue to be supported after migration from 6.0.1.1
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Delivered

Deny Access/Blacklist for common ID's

Add ability to create and utilize a blacklist in order to quickly block common used id's in penetration scans. While the ID's are not used and access is denied, the login attempts still go through the full authentication attempts which generate ov...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 6 Delivered

OCSP implementation for CD/SEAS

CD/SEAS do not provide any means to check the status of the certifcate in real time. They current rely on cache update on regular basis. Addition of OSCP in SEAS will provide a realtime check of revocation
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

SSP - add support for securing MQ connections

In order to monitor SSP via Control Center, MQ has to be used. SSP and ICC do not support secure connections to MQ. All our connections have to use SSL, therefore we cannot monitor SSP.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Delivered

Increase Key Exchange Security

We have a merchant who can't complete connectivity to SSP SFTP because they don't support the Key Exchange we currently have available. Their preference would be to use these kex protocols:ecdh-sha2-nistp256 ephemeral-ephemeral elliptic curve Diff...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Suppress load balancer health check pings for Configuration Manager Dashboard

We have Active- Passive Configuration Manager in our implementations. Administrators connect to Configuration Manager via Load Balancer URL. This would allow the administrators not to worry which configuration manager server they connect to.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Enable SAML SSO on secure proxy server

We have an existing requirement as follows. The trading partners are required to login to myFIlegateway through SSP Http adapter. SSP should be configured to support SSO using 3rd party application. Below is the sequence of events, should happen a...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Delivered

Some sites still require Implicit SSL due to business pressure

Implicit SSL is generally not a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for Secure Proxy. However, some of our customers experience intense business pressure...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered