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AlbertShym
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Jan 17, 2018
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R8300 - Support for MD5 Certificates with Built-In VPN

OpenVPN has announced that they will be ending support for MD5 certificates in April of 2018. If that means that I will not be able to use the VPN feature of my router, I am wondering if there will b...
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  • JamesGL's avatar
    JamesGL
    Jan 29, 2018

    Hi AlbertShym,

     

    I am sorry for the confusion. What I meant was the NETGEAR will be supporting the new certificate that OpenVPN uses before it stops supporting the MD5 certificate.

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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 22, 2018

Hi AlbertShym,

 

NETGEAR will support MD5 certificates for OpenVPN. It will be release before April of 2018.

  • AlbertShym's avatar
    AlbertShym
    Guide
    Jan 25, 2018
    But since NETGEAR's VPN solution uses MD5 certificates, will NETGEAR update the VPN solution to use more secure certificates?
  • JamesGL's avatar
    JamesGL
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jan 29, 2018

    Hi AlbertShym,

     

    I am sorry for the confusion. What I meant was the NETGEAR will be supporting the new certificate that OpenVPN uses before it stops supporting the MD5 certificate.

    • AlbertShym's avatar
      AlbertShym
      Guide
      Jan 29, 2018
      I see now. Thanks!
      • JamesGL's avatar
        JamesGL
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Jan 30, 2018

        Hi AlbertShym,

         

        You are welcome.

    • madbrain's avatar
      madbrain
      Luminary
      Feb 07, 2018

      What's the schedule for the new firmware udpate ? I'm facing the same issue on my R7000 .