[Cryptography] Oracle discovers the 1990s in crypto
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Jan 21 21:20:04 EST 2017
In case anyone missed it, Oracle will soon deprecate MD5 and use of keys under
1024 bits, and allow keys larger than 1024 bits to be used:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oracle-to-block-jar-files-signed-with-md5-starting-with-april-2017/
https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html
In other news, I expect them to announce porting Oracle to that newfangled
Windows XP thing, and the upcoming release of a Windows 98 client for it.
Peter.
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