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Status Future consideration
Categories Security
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 10, 2024

Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1).

I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application.

We wish to have a way to specify the default values for those fields on the SSH Remote Profile screen, so those default values are our desired security settings.

What is your industry? Computer Services
How will this idea be used?

Our implementation teams can let Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm fields use our custom defined default values when creating new SSH Remote Profiles, instead of having to select from the dropdown to change those values to current security settings.

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    Mark Allen
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    Jul 24, 2024

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