Microsoft expiring SHA-1 updates; Will this kill XP?

[erpdude8]

20 hours ago, xpandvistafan said:

Will the SHA-1 certificate expiration impact the catalog?

 

no.  the ms catalog site should still work - ms catalog is the modern day "ms download center"

 

8 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Nothing has changed, no signatures have disappeared, neither for the drivers, nor for updates. It looks like the panic was in vain.

 

yea, so much for the SHA1pocalypse (hah!)
my friend's old HP a1600n desktop PC with XP media center edition 2005 (patched with SP3 and a lot of the post-EOL XP updates) is still working recently

Edited May 10, 2021 by erpdude8

[dencorso]

15 minutes ago, erpdude8 said:

yea, so much for the SHA1pocalypse (hah!)

I told y'all so, haven't I?  

On 4/28/2021 at 8:25 PM, dencorso said:

Nothing. It's irrelevant, except for paranoia mongering, of course!