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Posted on 03/04/2017 9:11:03 AM PST by Jim Robinson
I am probably going to have to donate via snail mail. GOOGLE gives me “NOT SAFE” when I try to donate.
Thank you very much, Enterprise!!
It’s a fake by Google. 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.
Good enough boss. Donation just made.
Thank you very much, Enterprise!! God bless.
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