{"id":1882,"date":"2022-12-16T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T02:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2022-12-16T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T02:04:50","slug":"nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm-nist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm-nist\/","title":{"rendered":"NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm | NIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIST, the US standards body in charge of cybersecurity, is recommending phasing out the use of SHA-1 due to vulnerabilities in the algorithm and possibility of attacks by powerful machines. Modern browsers have already <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2014\/09\/gradually-sunsetting-sha-1.html\">sunset support<\/a> for SHA-1. However, older applications may still be using it as a form of checksum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2022\/12\/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SecureHashAltogirthm23_Released_960x600_v4_A.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The venerable cryptographic hash function has vulnerabilities that make its further use inadvisable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2022\/12\/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm\">NIST Retires SHA-1 Cryptographic Algorithm | NIST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIST, the US standards body in charge of cybersecurity, is recommending phasing out the use of SHA-1 due to vulnerabilities in the algorithm and possibility of attacks by powerful machines. Modern browsers have already sunset support for SHA-1. However, older applications may still be using it as a form of checksum. The venerable cryptographic hash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}