On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:53:55AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > Log message:
> > Remove hmac-sha2-256-96 and hmac-sha2-512-96 MACs since they were removed
> > from draft6 of the spec and will not be in the RFC when published.  Patch
> > from mdb at juniper net via bz#2023, ok markus.
> 
> aw does it matter if the spec is still fulfilled. I assume it doesn't
> state they shouldn't be there?

Using the names hmac-sha2-256-96 and hmac-sha2-512-96 is a violation of
the spec since that namespace is managed by IANA.  They could be
implemented as vendor extensions (hmac-sha2-256...@openssh.com and
hmac-sha2-512...@openssh.com).

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