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Status Planned for future release
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 29, 2021

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function:

  • MD5

  • SHA1

  • SHA256

  • SHA384

  • SHA512


The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms:

  • SHA224

  • SHA256

  • SHA384

  • SHA512


Requesting B2B Advanced Communications UI options be extended to include support for the SHA224 algorithm so that the full suite of SHA-2 hashes is supported.

What is your industry? Government
How will this idea be used?

This will enable us to support integration with business partners who may wish to choose the SHA224 hash from the SHA-2 suite for digest/signature functions.