[SSL Observatory] Using observatory data to check CAcert

[Rob Stradling]

On Saturday 30 Jul 2011 15:22:00 Hanno Böck wrote:
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> There's really no reason not to use SHA-2. There are no software
> compatibility issues in any browser that's reasonably used today. Even
> IE6 is capable of doing it.

Support for SHA-2 was first added to the Windows CryptoAPI in XP SP3, which 
means that IE6, IE7 and IE8 on XP SP 2 cannot do SHA-2.  So unfortunately, 
there are still a significant number of users with browsers/OSes that don't 
support SHA-2.

Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online