Hello there. As we prepare for September’s two security updates, we’d like to remind you about an important change to Windows’ certificate requirements included in Security Advisory 2661254 (Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length). In June, we began communicating this...
Security Advisory 2661254 - Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length
Before we get into the details of this month’s bulletin release, let’s take a look at an important change on how Windows deals with certificates that have RSA keys of less than 1024 bits in length.
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Revision Note: V1.0 (July 10, 2012): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is aware of Microsoft certificate authorities that are outside our recommended secure storage practices. Upon a routine review, we are placing these certificates in the Untrusted Certificate Store, and...