SSH Algorithms

WinSCP supports the following algorithms with SSH.

To see algorithms supported by your specific version of WinSCP, use /info command-line switch.

Encryption ciphers: aes256-ctr, aes256-cbc, rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se, aes192-ctr, aes192-cbc, aes128-ctr, aes128-cbc, chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, aes128-gcm@openssh.com, aes256-gcm@openssh.com, 3des-ctr, 3des-cbc, des-cbc, des-cbc@ssh.com, blowfish-ctr, blowfish-cbc, arcfour256, arcfour128

Key exchange algorithms: GSSAPI key exchange (gss-curve25519-sha256, gss-nistp521-sha512, gss-nistp256-sha256, gss-group16-sha512, gss-group17-sha512, gss-group18-sha512, gss-group15-sha512, gss-group14-sha256, gss-gex-sha1, gss-group14-sha1, gss-group1-sha1), sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com, curve448-sha512, curve25519-sha256, curve25519-sha256@libssh.org, ecdh-sha2-nistp256, ecdh-sha2-nistp384, ecdh-sha2-nistp521, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1, diffie-hellman-group18-sha512, diffie-hellman-group17-sha512, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512, diffie-hellman-group15-sha512, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1, rsa2048-sha256, rsa1024-sha1, diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

Host key algorithms: ssh-ed448, ssh-ed25519, ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com (latest beta version only), ecdsa-sha2-nistp256, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, cdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta), ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta), ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta), rsa-sha2-512, rsa-sha2-256, ssh-rsa, rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta), rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta), ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta), ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-v01@openssh.com (beta)

Message authentication code (MAC) algorithms: hmac-sha2-256 (hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com), hmac-sha2-512 (hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com) (latest beta version only), hmac-sha1 (hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com), hmac-sha1-96 (hmac-sha1-96-etm@openssh.com), hmac-md5 (hmac-md5-etm@openssh.com)

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