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Nimi | 10 years ago

Moving away from obsolete crap isn't the solution, it's the definition of the problem.

One could argue that the CA/Browser forum has achieved some success with moving away from SHA-1. As a spectator, I don't understand why this process is not repeated for similar obsolete primitives or standards.

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Gibbon1|10 years ago

I read an blog post by a guy with a long experience with this. What happens is large players demand that there be a 'reasonable' deadline for compliance. And then half the companies involved sit on their hands for two and a half years and then demand an extension. And then another and next thing you know you're still using RSA fifteen years after people knew they needed to stop using it.

Only solution I can think of is to create some sort of license where once the sunset deadline is established, the license to use it expires hard on the deadline.

Nimi|10 years ago

That's very interesting, do you happen to have a link for the blog post?