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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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Sterling Secure Proxy

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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.
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

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.
7 months 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...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Add the setting in SSP or PS can redirect incoming traffic to a different adapter after the adapter reaches its maximum session limit

For sftp clients from our external clients, their TCP sessions remain ESTABLISHED even though after users logoff. As a result, the Maximum Session limit of the SFTP adapter will be reached frequently. However, even though the session limit is reac...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Planned for future release

Support HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Automated way to copy exported SSL conf file from CM to Engine

We use a common SSL certificate for the CM, engine and Jetty web server communications. We export the SSL certificate store file from the CM (via ./configureCmSsl.sh -e file=<export file>) and store that in a location on the server the CM ru...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Add multiple ICAP servers

Would like to have the option to add an alternate ICAP server for redundancy
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

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