This might not mean anything, but NetScreen-5GT 6.2.0r15 (The first affected version) was the first release with a SHA-1 sum. April 2015 is the first archive of

This might not mean anything, but NetScreen-5GT 6.2.0r15 (The first affected version) was the first release with a SHA-1 sum. April 2015 is the first archive of this page I could find.[0] I wonder if the reasoning behind the SHA-1 is (possibly) that they were starting to notice some strange activity. I applaud them for disclosing all of this. That could not have been an easy thing to have to do. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150422145246/http://www.juniper.net/support/products/screenos/ns5gt/6.2/#sw https://web.archive.org/web/20150422145246/http://www.junipe... Archive link: https://archive.is/jdw13 https://archive.is/jdw13