CipherSpecs and CipherSuites in IBM MQ

IBM® MQ supports TLS1.3 and TLS 1.2 CipherSpecs, and RSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms. However, you can enable deprecated CipherSpecs, if you need to do so.

See Enabling CipherSpecs for information on:
  • CipherSpecs supported by IBM MQ.
  • How you enable deprecated SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CipherSpecs.

IBM MQ supports the RSA and Diffie-Hellman key exchange and authentication algorithms. The size of the key used during the TLS handshake can depend on the digital certificate you use, but some CipherSpecs include a specification of the handshake key size. Larger handshake key sizes provide stronger authentication. With smaller key sizes, the handshake is faster.