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Status Under review
Workspace IBM i
Categories Security
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 14, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Extend field in SSL trace output that includes cipher information

When analyzing output of SSL trace data, this may involve dumping the output to a spreadsheet for further analysis and comparison against cipher lists from QSSLCSL and/or SST (TLSCONFIG).

The challenge when comparing data is that since many cipher names are long these days, the names are truncated with part of the cipher name appearing on the next line.

There seem to be just 32 useable character spaces betweem each "*" to reflect the cipher name.

To see a related idea for enhancement, also to do with challenges when comparing cipher names, see this...

IBMI-I-4113 Make managing ciphers in QSSLCSL easier using 2-digit cipher codes and use these codes everywhere


Example:

*CONNECTION PROPERTIES *

*TLSV1.2 *

*TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY*

*1305_SHA256 *

*LOCAL PORT *

*448 *

*LOCAL IP ADDRESS *

*::ffff:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx *

*REMOTE PORT *

*56230 *

*REMOTE IP ADDRESS *

*::ffff:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx *

*QRWTSRVR QUSER nnnnnn *

*QIBM_OS400_QRW_SVR_DDM_DRDA *


Phil Howells

Australia
Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 25, 2024

    I'd like to go further and suggest that a better form of trace reporting be made available that ..

    a) provides a single line/row of information per connection and

    b) includes a date/timestamp.


    I am analyzing TLS trace data for connections using weak ciphers to determine what is the nature of the connections so that I can work with our connecting partners to uplift their client to use stronger ciphers/TLS protocols. The vertical structure of the trace data (per connection) is very hard to work with in a spreadsheet.


    Given that many security admins may need to perform extensive analysis for many systems, the challenge to work with output using this data structure is multiplied, particularly when trying to work with filters where fields containing data exist in a single column. A data structure where each piece of data for a single connection are separated out into columns in a standard reporting format would be much easier to work with and same a lot of time.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 12, 2024
    IBM has received your Idea and is evaluating it. IBM will provide a response after evaluation is complete.

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