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UNBELIEVABLE: 1024 bit rsa keys for windows will soon be no more - The Untold Story

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Certificates with RSA keys shorter than 2048 will soon no longer be supported by Windows, Microsoft has announced.

“This deprecation focuses on ensuring that all RSA certificates used for TLS server authentication must have key lengths greater than or equal to 2048 bits to be considered valid by Windows,” the software giant said in the announcement, part of its latest “Deprecated features for Windows client” list. 

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