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Microsoft Follows Mozilla In Considering Early Ban On SHA-1 Certificates (csoonline.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-outta-here dept.

itwbennett writes: Following the first successful collision attack on the SHA-1 hashing algorithm last month, Mozilla said that it was considering a cut-off of July 1, 2016 to start rejecting all SHA-1 SSL certificates, ahead of an earlier scheduled date of Jan. 1, 2017. And now Microsoft is considering blocking the hashing algorithm on Windows by June next year.

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  1. Re:Overrides by Zuriel · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can join the ranks of people holding on to WinXP virtual machines because they need them to administer that one device that needs a certain version of Java 1.4 and Firefox 3.6.