Security News > 2016 > November > Final warning: Popular browsers will soon stop accepting SHA-1 certificates (Help Net Security)

Starting with Chrome 56, planned to be released to the wider public at the end of January 2017, Google will remove support for SHA-1 certificates. Other browser makers plan to do the same. “The SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm first showed signs of weakness over eleven years ago and recent research points to the imminent possibility of attacks that could directly impact the integrity of the Web PKI,” Chrome Security team member Andrew Whalley explained. “Website … More →

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