On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:17, Darren Tucker wrote: > 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).
Any reason to do so? Are the truncated hashes particularly beneficial?
