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bbaraniec
Mar 31, 2015Luminary
Apache and openssl version RAIDiator 4.2.27.
Hi, Could anyone please tell me what are the versions of apache and openssl in RAIDiator 4.2.27.? Thank you in advance.
StephenB
Apr 01, 2015Guru - Experienced User
The concern over SHA-1 certificate hashing is that with sufficient effort someone can find another certificate that has the same hash. If you can find a pki cert that has the same hash as (for instance) paypal, then you can set up a fake paypal site, and https can't detect it. One source suggests that the cost of doing this with cloud computing resources might drop to $100,000 US in 2017. People are prudently starting to phase out SHA-1 cert hashing, so that there will be no massive problems later on.
However, self-signed certficates (used by ReadyNAS) are not verified with the hash function anyway - the cert itself has to be installed in the client browser. It isn't clear yet if chrome/firefox will deprecate SHA-1 hashing for locally generated self-signed certs. Microsoft is apparently not planning to deprecate them.
It would be a good idea to upgrade the self-signed cert to SHA-256 anyway since some browsers in the future might drop SHA-1 cert hashing, but there is no security risk.
But if you are deploying a pki certificate (e.g., provided by a certificate authority), then you should migrate to SHA-256 since they are verified by the hash function.
BTW, there are other uses of SHA-1 that are not vulnerable to this particular attack (called a collision attack). In particular, HMAC-SHA1 is still considered strong, and there are no plans to deprecate it.
However, self-signed certficates (used by ReadyNAS) are not verified with the hash function anyway - the cert itself has to be installed in the client browser. It isn't clear yet if chrome/firefox will deprecate SHA-1 hashing for locally generated self-signed certs. Microsoft is apparently not planning to deprecate them.
It would be a good idea to upgrade the self-signed cert to SHA-256 anyway since some browsers in the future might drop SHA-1 cert hashing, but there is no security risk.
But if you are deploying a pki certificate (e.g., provided by a certificate authority), then you should migrate to SHA-256 since they are verified by the hash function.
BTW, there are other uses of SHA-1 that are not vulnerable to this particular attack (called a collision attack). In particular, HMAC-SHA1 is still considered strong, and there are no plans to deprecate it.
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