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Why is Plesk still generating sha1 certs?!

HostaHost

Regular Pleskian
Most modern browsers are now flagging sha1 certs as insecure, whether it be something simple like a URL bar color change on the padlock to a caution flag, or with Chrome, clicking into the details tells you the site is using "obsolete encryption". Odin has known about the issue for at least eight months (http://kb.odin.com/en/123904) and released that kb on how to work around it. Yet here we are, Plesk 12 still doesn't make that change itself so that new servers generate SHA2 csr's....
 
Hello,

As Google begun flagging sites with recent SHA1 cert, this is a big problem. I think we don´t have to wait a general update of plesk to fix this critical issue. Any shopping site under plesk 12 is flag as insecure by chrome. This is a HUGE problem. May you have to cosider to fix it as a Microupdate as soon as possible.

In the meantime I don´t know if somebody know how to generate a CSR with SHA256 encryption. Thanks
 
Yes, we aware on this issue and have corresponding feature request http://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/1...-sha256-sha-2-for-certificate-reques#comments
I think it will be fixed in one of updates of upcoming Plesk 12.5 version.

It is a ONE LINE change in ONE FILE; does that really require a major version update instead of just a micro update to add "default_md = sha256" to /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/openssl.cnf?

Why does it seem like a constant battle to get Odin to update Plesk with current security standards?
 
Hello,

I followed this KB article http://kb.odin.com/en/123904

And try to generate a new CSR for a new SSL certificate but the length of the CSR is the same so I think is not signed with SHA2. Do I have to restart something or do something more?
 
Not that I've seen. On servers where we've changed it, any CSR's generated after that point have been sha2. You can confirm this by pasting the CSR into a file and running "openssl req -noout -text -in FILENAME" and you should see it mention sha256.
 
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