SHA-1’s days are numbered

First published by NIST in 1995 – two decades ago – SHA-1 has been supplanted by SHA-2 and then SHA-3, and federal agencies were required to upgrade way back in 2010. Microsoft, Google and Mozilla all announced that their web browsers would stop accepting SHA-1 certificates by 2017. This month, Google announced a timeline for its deprecation of SHA-1, beginning with Chrome v. 48 in early January. That browser will throw an error message for web sites that are signed with a SHA-1 certificate issued after January 1, and SHA-1 will be blocked completely in Chrome sometime between July 1, 2016 and January 1, 2017.

https://threatpost.com/google-announces-sha-1-deprecation-timeline/115681/

Microsoft has announced that it will start blocking SHA-1 certificates even earlier, next June. And Mozilla is considering doing the same on July 1.

https://threatpost.com/microsoft-considers-earlier-sha-1-deprecation-deadline/115299/

 

 

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