The Technical and Business Reasons You Need to Move To SHA-2 First, what is SHA? In basic terms, SHA is a component of an SSL certificate used to ensure that data has not been modified. SHA accomplishes this by computing a cryptographic function and any change to a given piece of data will result in...
SHA-1 has been in use among commercial certification authorities (CAs) since the late 1990s, and today accounts for the overwhelming majority of digital certificates in use. As of June 2014, SHA-1 SSL certificates accounted for over 98 percent of certificates issued worldwide. It’s also likely that...
MediaCorp—Singapore’s leading media company—featured Datacard® passport solutions on network television on Sept. 23, 2014. The interview was conducted with the CEO of Secur Solutions Group—an Enterprise Solutions Provider for Datacard Group—during the 2014 GovernmentWare (GovWare) Conference. The se...