RFC 6668

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RFC 6668 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard that updates the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol to add support for modern elliptic curve cryptography methods.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf IETF standard
Request for Comments
appliesTo SSH-2
area Security
author C. Namprempre
Mihir Bellare
surface form: M. Bellare

R. Barnes
T. Kohno
category Standards Track
cryptographicPrimitive SHA-2 family
defines data integrity verification methods for SSH
definesAlgorithm hmac-sha2-256
hmac-sha2-512
definesMAC hmac-sha2-256
hmac-sha2-512
definesRegistry MAC Algorithm Names for SSH
definesSecurityProperty data integrity
definesUseOf SHA-256
SHA-512
documentType Standards Track RFC
focusesOn data integrity in SSH
hasRFCNumber 6668
intendedStatus Standards Track
language English
obsoletedBy none
obsoletes none
protocolLayer SSH transport layer
publicationDate 2012-07
publicationMonth July
publicationYear 2012
publishedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
publisher RFC Editor
relatedTo RFC 4251
RFC 4252
RFC 4254
series RFCs
surface form: Request for Comments
specifies message authentication code algorithms for SSH
standardizes use of SHA-2-based MACs in SSH
status Proposed Standard
stream Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF
title SHA-2 Data Integrity Verification for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
updatesProtocol SSH
surface form: Secure Shell
updatesSpecification RFC 4253
url https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6668
workingGroup SSH
surface form: Secure Shell

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RFC 4252 isObsoletedBy RFC 6668