Mastercard International Incorporated

Weihua Zhou

Douglas Paul Forguson

Srinivas M Gummididala

Uday Kumar Survi

Systems and methods of centralized, global secure shell (SSH) key administration and management are provided, where a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) application programming interface (API) can be leveraged to integrate centralized SSH key administration across any and all SFTP API or other file transfer installations. This allows an administrative entity to use a central server, for example, to perform client and server SSH key administration and management (e.g., SSH key creation, removal, distribution, and expiration reporting/tracking), scheduling, configuration updates, and the like across an unlimited number of file transfer installations and platforms (and therefore, is also scalable). A single management interface can be utilized for viewing and updating SSH keys for applications, and SSH keys can be propagated to application servers where the SSH keys can be activated based on a scheduled time.

Secure shell file transfer protocol key administration

An operationally monolithic application is provided, where the application resides in a first program address space of an application server. The application calls to an application component residing in a second program address space of the application server, the application component being built upon a framework of the operationally monolithic application. The operationally monolithic application loads at least a first library upon which it depends to invoke a first method, and the application component loads at least a second library upon which it depends to invoke a second method. The first and second libraries can co-exist on the application server despite being different versions of the same libraries.

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Chesterfield, MO, United States of America

Weihua Zhou