Neowin News Feed for: Sha-1

OpenHashTab 3.1.1

Razvan Serea — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:54:01 +0000

OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties. Read more...

OpenHashTab 3.0.5

Razvan Serea — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:00:01 +0000

OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties. Read more...

OpenHashTab 3.0.4

Razvan Serea — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 04:44:01 +0000

OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties. Read more...

Alongside Windows 11 TPM, Secure Boot, MSA removal, Rufus now adds BitLocker disable option

Sayan Sen — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:44:01 +0000

Rufus 3.22 final version is now available for download from GitHub. It adds the option to disable BitLocker encryption. Another major highlight of the release is the end of Windows 7 support. Read more...

Rufus 3.22 Beta adds an option to disable BitLocker, removes ISO downloads on Windows 7

Taras Buria — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:42:01 +0000

Rufus 3.22 Beta is now available for download from GitHub. It allows disabling automatic BitLocker encryption SHA-1 and SHA-2 acceleration on supported processors and other changes. Read more...

All major Microsoft services will exclusively use SHA-2 from next month

Usama Jawad — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:48:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will allow the SHA-1 Trusted Root Certificate Authority to expire, and all major services and processes will exclusively use SHA-2 starting from next month. Read more...

Apple drops support for SHA-1 certificates in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15

Jay Bonggolto — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 22:14:01 +0000

Apple has quietly put out a support page announcing the deprecation of TLS certificates signed with SHA-1 in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Catalina two years after other tech giants adopted the change. Read more...

AdBlock Plus author calls out Firefox over nine-year-old master password bug

Boyd Chan — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:38:01 +0000

Wladimir Palant, the developer behind AdBlock Plus, has taken Mozilla to task over the way Firefox hashes master passwords to generate the encryption key used to protect stored passwords. Read more...

When hashes collide: Google shatters SHA-1

Joel Shedroff — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:02:01 +0000

Utilizing the massive amounts of computing power at its disposal, Google has manage to successfully generate the first cryptographic hash collision of SHA-1, further advocating its deprecation. Read more...

Microsoft Edge and IE11 to block websites using SHA-1 certificates next year

Usama Jawad — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 06:44:02 +0000

Microsoft has detailed how it plans to prevent sites using SHA-1 certificates from loading on Edge and Internet Explorer 11 starting next year. The hashing function was deemed insecure in 2005. Read more...