Secure shell access
- Secure remote terminal connections
- Secure remote command execution
Secure file transfer
- SCP and SFTP version 4 protocol support
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SCP and SFTP special features
- Smart Copy (to eliminate redundant copying of identical source and target files)
- File transfer resume after interrupted downloads
- Recursive directory copying
- Remote-to-remote transfers (SCP)
- Automatic ASCII mode for specified file extension types (SFTP)
- Support for High Performance Enabled (HPN) file transfer
- chroot environment support
- Unattended scheduled file transfers
Access control
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Assignable rights (allow or deny)
- Terminal shell access
- Exec requests
- File transfer access
- SFTP activities (browse, download, upload, delete, and rename)
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Assignable to (subconfigurations)
- Global
- Groups
- Users
- Per client system (by IP address or domain name)
Tunneling
- TCP port forwarding (local and remote)
- FTP protocol
- X11 protocol
- Background and "one-shot" (single use) forwarding ports
Standards support
- Compliance with IETF Secsh Internet drafts and RFCs 4250-4254, 4256, 4462, 4345, and 4716
- UTF-8 character support
Cryptographic library validation
- FIPS 140-2 Level 1 (Certificate #1747 and #2398-AIX)
Algorithms
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Ciphers
- AES (128-, 192-, and 256-bit CTR)
- AES (128-, 192-, and 256-bit CBC)
- 3DES (3 56-bit key EDE)
- Blowfish (128-bit)
- CAST (128-bit)
- Arcfour (128- and 256-bit)
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MACS
- HMAC-MD5
- HMAC-MD5-96
- HMAC-SHA1
- HMAC-SHA1-96
- HMAC-SHA256
- HMAC-SHA512
- RIPEMD160
- Meets DoD requirements for SHA-2
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Key exchange
- Diffie-Hellman
- GSS-API key exchange
- RSA
- DSA
Authentication
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Server authentication
- Public key (RSA and DSA)
- PKI X.509 certificates
- Kerberos (gssapi-keyex)
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User authentication
- Password
- Public key
- RSA and DSA user keys
- Key agent utility for private key management
- Agent forwarding
- Host name aliasing for host key storage
- PKCS#11 smart card support on Solaris 10 SPARC platforms
- Keyboard interactive
- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module)
- RSA SecurID
- RADIUS
- Keyboard-interactive password
- PKI X.509 certificates
- Kerberos (gssapi-with-mic)
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LDAP
- Directory-accessed user shell configurations
- Support for mkhomedir PAM module for automatic creation of LDAP user home directory
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Reflection PKI Services Manager
- Centralized configuration and management of PKI functions across Reflection for Secure IT Server for Windows, Server for UNIX, and Client for UNIX
- Standalone service module supported on most platforms supported by Reflection for Secure IT Server for Windows and Server for UNIX
- DoD PKI certified
- FIPS 140-2 Level 1-validated for most supported platforms (Certificate #2058)
- RFCs 2253, 2560, and 3280
- X.509 certificates for server and client authentication (X.509 versions 1-3)
- Version 2 X.509 CRL
- OCSP revocation checks
- HSPD-12 support
- Support for LDAP and HTTP certificate and CRL repositories
- Certificate extensions supported
- CDP
- IDP
- AIA
- Policy constraints
- Basic constraints
- Name constraints
- Extended key usage
- Customizable configuration on per trust anchor basis
- Fully customizable mapping of SSH user account names to certificates
- SOCKS proxy supported
- PKI client command line utility for querying services availability and certificate validity
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Other
- Configurable pre-authenticated session limit
Accounting/auditing
- Logon events for all authentication methods
- Detailed file transfer event capture, including uploads, downloads, and directory listings
- Notification of exceeded maximum password attempts
- HP-UX SAM auditing and security tool support
- Oracle Solaris Basic Security Module auditing support
- Oracle Solaris Least Privilege Model support
- AIX System Resource Controller support
- Dedicated audit log for all file transfers
Performance
- High Performance Enabled (HPN) support leverages dynamic TCP windows for improved file transfer performance
- Granular control of data compression levels enables performance calibration
Operating systems
- HP-UX 11i v2 (PA-RISC)
- HP-UX 11i v2 (Itanium)
- HP-UX 11i v3 (Itanium)
- IBM AIX 6.1 (POWER)
- IBM AIX 7.1 (POWER)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86)*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86-64)*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86)*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86-64)*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x86-64)*
- Oracle Solaris 10 (SPARC)*
- Oracle Solaris 10 (x86)*
- Oracle Solaris 10 (x86-64)*
- Oracle Solaris 11 (SPARC)*
- Oracle Solaris 11 (x86-64)*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86)*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86-64)*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 zSeries (64-bit)*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86)*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86-64)*
System requirements
- Any system that meets the minimum requirements for the UNIX/Linux operating system
- Network interface card
- For all Itanium systems, the library libunwind is required (HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server)
- Oracle Solaris UltraSPARC CPU