Woo hoo!! Over the top!! Thank you all very much!! MAGA!! [FReepathon thread LXIII]

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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 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.

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