Security News > 2020 > July > YOU... SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps
Microsoft is preparing to once and for all drop support for the SHA-1 hash algorithm.
"To support evolving industry security standards, and continue to keep you protected and productive, Microsoft will retire content that is Windows-signed for Secure Hash Algorithm 1 from the Microsoft Download Center on August 3, 2020," Microsoft said in a tech bulletin.
"SHA-1 is a legacy cryptographic hash that many in the security community believe is no longer secure," Microsoft noted.
As with most of the bigger moves Microsoft makes, the transition from SHA-1 is a drawn-out process that has been going on since at least March 2019 when Windows Updates began to be signed with SHA-2 hashes.
Following the March 2019 move for Windows Update, Microsoft in August 2019 ended all support for updates not signed with SHA-2.
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