Subject: Re: SHA-2 based HMAC algorithm...

From: Damien Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:25:15 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> Simon Tatham <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> >I've uploaded a complete set of PuTTY executables (in the 'x86'
> >subdir) and source archives modified for SHA-2 support, together with
> >the source code patch (in 'sha2.diff'). I've verified that all four
> >of the new MACs work against OpenSSH 5.8p1
>
> Works with cryptlib as well, after a two-line change :-).
>
> (One minor gripe, it would be nice if Putty's log window was
> resizeable and/or defaulted to being a bit larger than two adjacent
> low-denomination postage stamps).

okay, these modes (as represented in mdb's patch) have just been
committed to OpenSSH and will be in the 5.9 release (due soonish)

-d