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I was dubious about it to begin with, when I found that RFC 7616's example seemed to be treating it as a 256-bit truncation of SHA-512, and not the thing FIPS 180-4 section 6.7 specifies as "SHA-512/256" (which also changes the initial hash state). Having failed to get a clarifying response from the RFC authors, I had the idea this morning of testing other HTTP clients to see what _they_ thought that hash function meant, and then at least I could go with an existing in-practice consensus. There is no in-practice consensus. Firefox doesn't support that algorithm at all (but they do support SHA-256); wget doesn't support anything that RFC 7616 added to the original RFC 2617. But the prize for weirdness goes to curl, which does accept the name "SHA-512-256" and ... treats it as an alias for SHA-256! So I think the situation among real clients is too confusing to even try to work with, and I'm going to stop adding to it. PuTTY will follow Firefox's policy: if a proxy server asks for SHA-256 digests we'll happily provide them, but if they ask for SHA-512-256 we'll refuse on the grounds that it's not clear enough what it means.
This is the README for PuTTY, a free Windows and Unix Telnet and SSH
client.
PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in
the source directory:
cmake .
cmake --build .
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. If you aren't using one of our
source snapshots, you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be
found at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.