scary certificate for www.update.microsoft.com

[Ben Liddicott]

RSA is not in suite B either.

Also Microsoft will give security updates to unlicensed copies of 
windows, the last time I heard, just not functionality updates.

Cheers,
Ben

On 18/06/2012 12:37, Tony Naggs wrote:
> Neither the blog or the 2 SSL test tools point out that Microsoft are 
> stilling using SHA1 on their new certificate for signing.
>
> SHA1 has been known since 2005 to be weak, and US NSA advice via NIST 
> since 2006 has been:
> "Federal agencies must stop relying on digital signatures that are 
> generated using SHA-1 by the end of 2010."
>
> Ref:http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/statement.html
(... deletia...)

> Really everyone should be using SHA2-256 or better on all new 
> certificates by now!
> Yes, as I'm sure you know the Windows Update tool runs (ActiveX) stuff 
> to help Microsoft to try to limit updates to go only to PCs with 
> correctly licensed Windows.
>
>
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