Microsoft Finally Bans SHA-1 Certificates In Its Browsers (zdnet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:51AM from the living-on-the-Edge dept.

An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: With this week's monthly Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has also rolled out a new policy for Edge and Internet Explorer that prevents sites that use a SHA-1-signed HTTPS certificate from loading. The move brings Microsoft's browsers in line with Chrome, which dropped support for the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function in January's stable release of Chrome 56, and Firefox's February cut-off... Apple dropped support for SHA-1 in March with macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and iOS 10.3... Once Tuesday's updates are installed, Microsoft's browsers will no longer load sites with SHA-1 signed certificates and will display an error warning highlighting a security problem with the site's certificate.

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Re:well you know what they say by Anonymous Coward · 2017-05-13 13:50 · Score: 0, Troll

it doesn't impact those in any way. If you have zero idea of the very basics on how certificates work, why post here? serious question. I don't know much about poetry. I don't post on poetry forums. why do you post on slashdot? did you miss that? "site for nerds." right up top. it means it's not for you.