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Luminary

Feb 26, 2017

SHA-1 has been officially broken, FVS devices don't support SHA-2

I replied to an "Idea Exchange" post, but figured I would post this here as well. SHA-1 has been successfully shown to have weaknesses. The Github repository website suffered a data corruption re...

Security

Troubleshooting

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 27, 2017

Hi train_wreck,

Thanks for posting this information. This has been raised to the engineering team.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

train_wreck
Luminary
Mar 22, 2017
Just for information, the latest update to Cisco's RV042G router (a direct competitor to the FVS336G) has been updated to resolve this issue....
- SamirD
  Prodigy
  Mar 25, 2017
  Did you hear that? I heard a whip cracking! lol!
  - abrightidea
    Tutor
    May 11, 2017
    So frustrating that Netgear is not taking security serriously. Netgear VPN firewalls do not support SHA-2. That's crazy.
    And no one can give an ETA