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Woo hoo!! And we're now over 36%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless. |
Posted on 04/01/2017 10:07:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Thank you very much, Delta 21!!
Fake it is. Or misleading anyway. Our industry standard SHA-1 security certificate is paid-up, enforce and still valid and our secure server is still encrypting our donations just as securely as it always has for the last 15 or so years that we’ve been running it. Google, and now Firefox following their lead, has decided to deprecate their support for SHA-1 in favor of SHA-2 encryption. Apparently, they employed some supercomputers and after two years and millions and millions of attempts, managed to force through a suspicious encryption.
Announcing the first SHA1 collision
February 23, 2017
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
But, other than that, our SHA-1 server is still valid and still secure.
That said, John will be upgrading to the new SHA-2 method, but there are some tricky systems level issues that he has to work it first. He was hoping to get it done before the 1st, but didn’t make it. Hopefully i’ll be done soon.
In the meantime, you can click on the “ADVANCED” link at the bottom of Google’s erroneous, misleading “not secure” message and continue to our secure server anyway, if you wish. Or if you’re on Windows 10, try opening our secure server donate link with the default Windows 10 browser, Edge, which still works perfectly fine without the erroneous message.
Thank you very much, MEG33!!
My pleasure, Jim.
My Quarterly/300 Club donation on the way Monday morning. God bless FR!!!
Fixing a couple typos:
Fake it is. Or misleading anyway. Our industry standard SHA-1 security certificate is paid-up, enforce and still valid and our secure server is still encrypting our donations just as securely as it always has for the last 15 or so years that weve been running it. Google, and now Firefox following their lead, has decided to deprecate their support for SHA-1 in favor of SHA-2 encryption. Apparently, they employed some supercomputers and after two years and millions and millions of attempts, managed to force through a suspicious encryption.
Announcing the first SHA1 collision
February 23, 2017
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
But, other than that, our SHA-1 server is still valid and still secure.
That said, John will be upgrading to the new SHA-2 method, but there are some tricky systems level issues that he has to work OUT first. He was hoping to get it done before the 1st, but didnt make it. Hopefully IT’LL be done soon.
In the meantime, you can click on the ADVANCED link at the bottom of Googles erroneous, misleading not secure message and continue to our secure server anyway, if you wish. Or if youre on Windows 10, try opening our secure server donate link with the default Windows 10 browser, Edge, which still works perfectly fine without the erroneous message.
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Thank you very much, jazusamo!! MAGA!!
Woo hoo!!
And we have incoming:
$100.00 from Washington
$100.00 from South Carolina
$91.00 from Washington
$100.00 from South Dakota
$100.00 from Oregon
$20.00 from Massachusetts
$100.00 from Pennsylvania
$5.00 from New Jersey
$50.00 from California
$50.00 from Tennessee
$100.00 from Maine
$20.00 from Kansas
$20.00 from Pennsylvania
$20.00 from Never Never Land
$5.00 from Never Never Land
$20.00 from Vermont
$25.00 from Texas
$10.00 from North Carolina
$20.00 from Texas
Thank you all very much!!
Woo hoo!! And the first 1% is IN!!
FReepers are the absolute greatest!!
God bless.
*Grin*
Thank you very much, goodnesswins!! God bless.
Thank you very much, Magic Fingers!! It appears to be some deep down operating systems conflicts, not hardware. John has had it working a bit better recently, but it comes and goes. Hopefully, he gets it all resolved soon.
Thank you very much, LUV W!!
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I must be away from the computer now.
Thank you very much, SkyDancer!! God bless.
Thank you very much, upchuck!! Go, FReepers!!
Thank you very much, Rushmore Rocks!! God bless.
Thank you very much, Publius!! Greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much, bobby.223!! God bless.
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