Mary Criscione - Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, gave me this Security Tech Tip and I thought I should share with the group.
Did you know that the SHA-1 hash has weaknesses and that SHA-2 is considered much stronger? Many Public Certificate Authorities are expected to drop SHA-1 in 2017. Be prepared for these errors: “Certificate not recognized,” “Connection not sure,” “Connection can’t be established,” “Bad certificate,” or “Untrusted certificate.” In 2015, InfoWorld noted that the industry was moving to the more secure SHA-2 encryption. They stated that many digital-certificate-consuming devices and applications would fail or display warning/errors if a digital certificate contained the SHA-1 (or earlier) hash. SHA-2 is more secure and preferred. Progress OpenEdge 11.6 gives you that piece of mind by supporting the latest Security protocols.
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