Which Openssh version supports SHA-2 in the RHEL ?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • This year, Japanese government made an announcement that SHA-1 needs to be retired and SHA-2 needs to be used.
  • SHA-2 is a protocol which has been supported from OpenSSH version 5.9(Upstream).
  • On RHEL5 and RHEL6, the version of OpenSSH is older than OpenSSH 5.9 and SHA-2 is not supported yet.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6

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