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Status Planned for future release
Categories Security
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2018

MAC Algorithm Updates

We have a vendor that is requiring that we use "hmac-sha2-512" for our SFTP connection to them.

I don't see that as an option per the documentation:
The MAC the client prefers to use for stream encryption. Required. Valid values are:
hmac-sha1
hmac-md5
hmac-sha2-256
hmac-sha1-96 (V5.2.5_15 or later)
hmac-md5-96 (V5.2.5_15 or later)
Default is hmac-sha1.
(Taken from here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.sftp.doc/SI_To_Setup_TP_SSH-SFTP.html)

Is there an update that can be applied that would provide this functionality?

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

Increases security of SFTP connections.