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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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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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Planned for future release

Provide visibility of log info within SSP UI for troubleshooting of connectivity or authentication issues

Troubleshooting external trading partner connectivity issues requires accessing the SB2BI servers and searching multiple log files. This is extremely cumbersome as well as requiring production support resources to have access to the server, which ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

SSH Support Through SSP As A Forward Proxy

During recent joint discussions a gap in the SSP protocol stack has been identified whereby outbound SSH connections (i.e. supporting SFTP and SCP) are not supported. In order to enforce a More Secure to Less Secure network, whereby the network ho...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 Moduli min bits

As diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 typically used a minimum of 2048 bits for the key size. However for the stronger security, it's recommended to use 3072 bits or even 4096 in SSP. However, we can't change the min bits of moduli in SSP to ful...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

expand password length to 100 Characters

Consistency of all IBM products to allign with the RACF maximum Password/Passphrase Lengths,
12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 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/...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

SSP Rest Monitoring

We would like to track the engine and detailed per engine adapter status through Rest. This data is available on the viewEngineStatusAllMonitor.jsp page when logging in through the browser but not through the current rest interface.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Steling Secure Proxy new feature request for password reset/forgot password.

System : SSPActor: User needing to change a forgot password. SSP currently does not support forgot password or password reset self service functionality. Need to add this feature on SSP Description: During the initial on boarding of a partner id w...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

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