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If by "secured by SHA1" you mean "someone generated a hash using SHA-1 and we use the validity of that hash to guarantee we have the right document," that's sti
by danielweber 10y ago
If by "secured by SHA1" you mean "someone generated a hash using SHA-1 and we use the validity of that hash to guarantee we have the right document," that's still okay. We're a long way from being able to make documents with a given SHA-1.
(Edit: Any newly signed documents, or documents signed recently, are not safe, because an nasty person could have made two, one to get signed by the system, another to do evil with.)
SHA-1 is officially deprecated for certificates, because of the example that OP shows. You can create two certificates, have the decent one get signed by a CA, and then use the evil one to intercept traffic.
- grandalf 10y agoThanks for the info. Good point, I suppose anyone relying on SHA1 in 2017 has had ample warning about its weaknesses. It seems that there is also a very strong incentive for anyone receiving anything whose authenticity is verified by SHA1 to request an improved hashing algorithm.