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SHA1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/11/12/security-advisory-2880823-recommendation-to-discontinue-use-of-sha-1.aspx
Anyone have more info? How does the small characteristic restriction affect things?
Designing a Secret Handshake: Authenticated Key Exchange as a Capability System
(dominictarr.github.io)
Describes the design of a Authenticated Key Exchange for a secure-channel protocol
Via Patrick Donahue of CloudFlare, @prdonahue on Twitter. To pass, 2/3 of CAs and 1/2 of browser vendors in the CA/Browser forum must vote for; the browser vendors are Microsoft (proposer), Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and a China-based company called Qihoo 360. Unclear if any members might ignore...
SHA-1 signatures are now considered unsafe.