OpenSSH to deprecate SHA-1 logins due to security risk

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Posted by InfoSec News on May 27

https://www.zdnet.com/article/openssh-to-deprecate-sha-1-logins-due-to-security-risk/

By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet.com
May 27, 2020

OpenSSH, the most popular utility for connecting to and managing remote
servers, has announced today plans to drop support for its SHA-1 authentication
scheme.

The OpenSSH team cited security concerns with the SHA-1 hashing algorithm,
currently considered insecure.

The algorithm was broken in a practical,…


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