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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...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

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...
6 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...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring SSP authorization through SCC

Hi Team, One of my client has a requirement to monitor and generate a report which gives the details of users who initiated a connection to SSP.It should capture both successful and unsuccessful attempts along with the username. Currently, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Future consideration

add more logging for MAX session /statistics

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

Multiple Host Key availability for partners.

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 than RSA (ECDSA) while other vendors d...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 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 ...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 1 Planned for future release

be able to create a single new user through REST API

Make it possible to add a new user in the User Store using Rest API.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0

Generate Notifications From IBM Secure Proxy on Expiring Certificates

When using Connect: Direct and Secure Proxy, all the Partner specific certificates currently get checked into IBM Secure Proxy Trust Store, if there are Partner certificates up for expiry there is no functionality available in SSP to notify on th...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

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