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An SSL security guru is urging incentives to promote website certificate upgrade in response to problems with a widely-used digital-signature algorithm. Collisions in the MD5 hashing algorithm mean that two different inputs can produce the same output. Last year independent researchers showed how the cryptographic flaw might …

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  1. Tom Chiverton 1

    Easy answer

    get a free non-limited cert from http://cert.startcom.org/

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    @Tom Chiverton

    Not much use since it isn't recognised by default in IE

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  3. Tim Bates

    Re: Easy answer

    I have free certs from CACert - Not much good when no one has the CA root certificates pre-shipped.

    And CACert don't look half as dodgy as that lot.

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