Facebook just announced that it will stop using the SHA-1 encryption algorithm to encrypt its connections as of October 1, 2015.
The social network made the following announcement:
These changes are part of a broader shift in how browsers and websites encrypt traffic to protect the contents of online communications.
SHA -1 was one of the most widely used algorithms on the Web, but it was less secure than previously thought, according to a 2011 report from the CA/Browser Forum on the Baseline Requirementsfor SSL.
The report recommends that certificate authorities abandon the SHA-1 algorithm and use SHA-2 certificates.
Google already started the change process back in 2014 and now it looks like Facebook will follow suit.
Facebook already encourages developers developing apps to run on the social network or on devices to use the SHA-2 encryption standard.
