Microsoft Root Certificate program deprecated SHA-1 hashing algorithm
Microsoft Official January 12, 2016 issued a security advisory, since January 1, 2016, Microsoft has released code discard changes, that is, after January 1, 2016 with the SHA1 code signing certificate signed by the software in Win 7 and later will not be trusted, Signed and time-stamped programs before January 1, 2016 will continue to be trusted.
How large is the scope of this advisory?
This advisory is designed to help customers assess the risk of certain applications that use the SHA-1 hashing algorithm to sign up to a digital certificate, and recommends that administrators and certification authorities begin using SHA-2 instead of SHA-1 to sign digital certificates as an algorithm.
Ivesin reminds the user to replace the SHA-1 certificate in a timely manner, the SHA-2 code signing certificate purchased by the customer from the Ebaotech letter uses the SHA-2 hashing algorithm.
Microsoft Root Certificate program deprecated SHA-1 hashing algorithm