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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 25, 2023

MQ .NET Managed Client: Support alias CipherSpecs such as ANY_TLS13_OR_HIGHER

In MQ .NET Managed Client, please add support for alias CipherSpecs such as ANY_TLS13_OR_HIGHER. A queue manager provider supports several cipher specs and recommends we configure the alias CipherSpec rather than a specific cipher, however, MQ .NET Managed Client only works when configuring a single specific cipher.

Idea priority Medium
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    Mark Taylor
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    Nov 21, 2023

    The .Net client already uses the CipherSpec set at the application to determine only the version of TLS, rather than the specific cipher to be used. The global Group Policy setting at the OS level takes care of negotiating the actual CipherSpec. Making this more explicit, with the alias cipherspecs is something we hope to deliver in a future release.