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EKMF Workstation

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UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
10 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Take keys from IBM Cloud under management in EKMF Workstation

want only one central key management system across enterprise and this covers also cloud environment
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Planned for future release

Sign the EKMF log with a key that offers up-to-date security, i.e. AES-HMAC or ECC 500+ Bits

Requirement 1: The currently used DES keys for securing the log of EKMF are not anymore allowed in our organization. More current crypto algorithms have to be used for new log entries. Currently accepted are AES-HMAC and ECC with more than 500 Bit...

Secure the integrity of the installed EKMF software by encryption of the disk

Currently an attack vector might be that somebody manipulates the EKMF Java classes on disk and then waits for an operator/admin with sufficient access rights to use the workstation. The attacker might be able to extract key material by just trans...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Future consideration

Permit group selection of ACPs for enablement/disablement in the CCA node management utility included with the EKMF install.

The ability to perform group selection of ACPs would expediate the task of activating ACPs for a role instead of one at a time. (This would have been particularly useful in activating all the TR31 functions.) Note: We are running EKMF v9.4.1 on a...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 1 Planned for future release