I am running the latest chromium and google-chrome browser .
On 17 March 2016 at 08:15, Luke Douglass <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps your issue is the current installed browser does not support SHA-2 > SSL created certs? Found this note below... this is different from the 1024 > to 2048bit minimum requirement... mighty dicks run the security world and > mighty muppets consume whats fed to them... thats why we have dogs > breakfast issues like this today. > > > "Following new research performed by a team of international cryptography > researchers, the Certificate Authorities have found a weakness in SHA-1 > encryption, allowing these certificates to be connected to the Certificate > Authorities' root certificates, making it falsely appear that they have > been issued and signed by a public CA. This allows SHA-1 signed > certificates to be used for phishing and fraud. > > Previously, you may have received information about the transition from > SHA-1 to SHA-2 > <http://newsletter.namecheap.com/link.php?M=11708641&N=1066&L=702&F=H>, > stating that most browsers would begin migrating to the more secure SHA-2 > protocol and would stop accepting SHA-1 certificates on January 1, 2017. > However, due to the discoveries described above, the risk of using SSL > certificates encrypted with SHA-1 is significantly greater than first > believed. Certificate Authorities have strongly advised acceleration of the > migration process." > > > > > > > *Regards* > Luke Douglass > > *039290239 *|* SUPPORTU <http://supportu.nz>* | BACKMEUP > <http://backmeup.nz> | *ACCESSMY *.*EMAIL .SPACE .WEBSITE* > *P.O. Box 32040, Linwood, Christchurch 8147 - termsandconditions > <http://supportu.co.nz/termsandconditions.html>* > > -- Regards Bevan Linux Aficionado and Arch Linux fanboy In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
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