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Enterprise Key Management Foundation

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GUI usability improvements for UKO

We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
7 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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
10 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Planned for future release

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
11 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

EKMF Web should support the ability to import CIPHER keys from an existing CKDS.

Given that CIPHER keys are the recommended key type for DSE, EKMF Web should fully support the ability to import these keys when they have been previously defined in a keystore.
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 2 Future consideration

ICSF / TKE / EKMF should all use the same VP for the same key type

The Verification Patterns that are used in ICSF, TKE and EKMF should be consistent so that an auditor or key manager would know that they are working with the same Key. There are times when a Key created on the TKE will show one VP method but the ...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation 0 Future consideration

support DB2 LUW as key repository for EKMFWEB

We have z/OS customers interested in pervasive encryption that do not run DB2 on z/OS. Currently only official support exists for DB2 z/OS as key repository. As the EKMFWEB product supports jdbc2 type 2 and type 4 it could target a DB2 LUW running...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

Improve Dataset Scanner to use SMF42 records

Today the dataset scanner uses the catalog search interface to record the encryption status of datasets. By the time we actually run the scanner, there have been many thousands of datasets that no longer reside on disk. In our shop we have many th...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Future consideration

Support specifying key ring owner in configuration

The ablility to use a site certificate and Keyring that has an owner other then the owner running the started task on mainframe. EX: SITEID/Keyringname instead of EKMFweb/Keyringname Sites that run mulitple web servers can use a single Keyring and...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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