Industry and standards bodies had announced the transition from SHA-1 hashes to SHA-2 in certificates some time ago, but adoption was weak. Now Heartbleed has created an opportunity to jumpstart ...

NIST had received 63 submissions since putting out an to find a successor to SHA-2. SHA-2 is actually a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) in the MD (message ...

It is a slightly modified version of SHA, the first hash function the federal government standardized for widespread use in 1993. As today’s increasingly powerful computers are able to attack the ...

As there are flaws in the SHA-1 algorithm that make it less secure, Microsoft has stated that starting on July 16th 2019, Windows updates will only be signed using the SHA-2 algorithm going forward.

NIST will evaluate the submitted algorithms and choose one or more to become the successor of SHA-2 by 2012. Hash functions generate unique digest strings that can serve as digital signatures in ...

Microsoft plans to stop trusting Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) certificates next month for 'all major Microsoft processes and services,' according to a Wednesday announcement.

SHA-3 follows SHA-2 and is the product of a competition launched by the NIST in 2007 with the aim of developing a new cryptographic hash algorithm.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology retired one of the first widely used cryptographic algorithms, citing vulnerabilities that make further use inadvisable, Thursday. NIST recommended ...

Researchers have found a new way to attack the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, still used to sign almost one in three SSL certificates that secure major websites, making it more urgent than ever to ...

Although NIST was concerned in 2007 about the SHA-2 algorithm being vulnerable, based on attacks on some of the variants, its worries turned out to be unfounded.