Reminder: Deprecation of SHA-1 for Microsoft Root Certificate Program [August 27, 201

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All,

As you probably know, Microsoft published a security advisory on
"Deprecation of SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm for Microsoft Root Certificate
Program". The policy takes effect after January 1, 2016 and requires CAs to
migrate to the stronger SHA-2 hashing algorithm.

Organizations need to develop a migration plan for SHA-1 code signing
certificates that expire after January 1, 2016. To support
older Windows operating systems (e.g. Windows XP, Vista, early Windows 7
versions) and modern Windows systems (Windows 8.x and later) after 1 January
2016, you have to dual SHA-1/SHA-2 code-sign your files using Microsoft
Authenticode compatible time stamp and RFC 3161 compliant trusted time stamp
servers (SHA-2 compatible code-signing certificate is required).

Only 127 days left... !!!

But don't panic. The upcoming SetupBuilder 10 Developer Edition can dual
SHA-1/SHA-2 code-sign your application files and the setup.exe for you :-)
More info to come soon.

Friedrich

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