| Title | SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns | |
| Date | Friday December 11 2015, @04:55PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the failure-to-communicate dept. | ||
SHA1 certificates for secure SSL/TLS communications are deprecated due to known computational vulnerabilities. To ensure secure communications, a forced deprecation sounds reasonable (i.e. refuse to connect to these). That has the side effect that it will lock out many users who are unable to use stronger hashes such as SHA256. However, if a fallback to SHA1 is provided (as Facebook is proposing), everyone will be vulnerable to SHA1 downgrade man-in-the-middle attacks.
What to do?
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