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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 8, 2026

System Hardening, add more security to the s3 interface by allowing to only listen on tcp/443 for the s3 ports and listen on ssh only on Management Ports

Currently every node of the DeepArchive system listens on every interface for all ports. Therefor ssh is possible on the data interface as s3 glacier is possible on the MGMT interfaces. This is not good for security reasons, because you can separate the interfaces but it has no effect besides faster access as the data interfaces are fibre and the mgmt are copper. It should be possible to configure the system that way that only necessary ports are open in general and on the data interface only tcp/443 should be open.

Idea priority Urgent