If you’ve ever bought anything online, checked your bank accounts through the app, or logged on to your favorite social media network, you’ve used a technology called SSL/TLS. The S in HTTPS. SSL/TLS (just to keep it simple, I’ll refer to as SSL) is the technology used to encrypt the communication between your browser and…
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The SHA-1 hash function is broken. This isn’t news. What is news is that a practical attack has been demonstrated Keep in mind that “practical” is used in cryptographers terms and those terms don’t necessarily have an impact on your daily IT use. The news has been making the rounds as IT teams, journalists, and…
Read MoreThere is a likely acceleration date which may require you to switch all your SHA-1 certificates to SHA-2 certificates by June 1, 2016, instead of the previous deadline of December 31, 2016. In 2013, Microsoft announced that SHA-1 certificates will have significant security problems in the following years, and therefore cannot be issued after Jan 1,…
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