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pyrmont
Feb 22, 2018Guide
MD5-Signed Certificate Warning with OpenVPN on iOS
As of version 1.2.8 of the OpenVPN app on iOS, OpenVPN issues the following warning: > WARN TLS: received certificate signed with MD5. > Please inform your admin to upgrade to a > stronger algori...
- Mar 01, 2018
FYI, I documented the steps to required to replace the certificates here. Unfortunately it the steps are written for users of Windows, but it also uses mostly cross-platform OpenSource tools and explains what's going on so I think it should be pretty translatable if you don't have access to any Windows boxes.
Just posting this so you have at least one go-forward path.
gramercyradio
Jun 13, 2018Tutor
Hi jg121234 -
Yes, thanks for the post. I believe I saw the update available for R6700 over the past weekend when I was checking for updates in the Setup | Advanced. Will be updating soon and will post how it works.
Thanks!
jg121234
Jun 13, 2018Tutor
It looks like R6700v3 firmware fixing this issue was released on 6/1/18.
- Added support for SHA256 certificates in lieu of MD5 for OpenVPN
https://kb.netgear.com/000058850/R6700v3-Firmware-Version-1-0-2-56
Hopefully Netgear can release R6700v2 now that they already released v1 and v3...
- jg121234Jun 22, 2018Tutor
R6700v2 Firmware Version 1.2.0.24 OpenVPN MD5 fix released
https://kb.netgear.com/000059475/R6700v2-Firmware-Version-1-2-0-24
Going to give it a try, hopefully everything is good to go!