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To: Delta 21

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.


61 posted on 04/01/2017 11:46:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Delta 21; All

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 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 OUT first. He was hoping to get it done before the 1st, but didn’t make it. Hopefully IT’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.


65 posted on 04/01/2017 11:57:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson
No problem at all, Jim. I threw caution to the wind and added you to my Firefox's white-list with absolutely no worries. I know your Father, after all.

Seamless PayPal x-action, and I am actually starting to use my Freeper email addy. Looking forward to the party when The Cankle or The Bent One gets thrown in prison!

Eagles Up


92 posted on 04/01/2017 2:48:34 PM PDT by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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