Michael Howard Three Quotations

SHA-1 is currently showing some signs of weakness and may be completely insecure in the next few years. Since customers will use Microsoft products for more than two to three years, it's important we protect them by working now to improve the security of code for the future and banning the SHA-1 algorithm is a step in that direction.

I suspect that a much better approach would be to look at some of the other aspects of our judicial system. Just extending the period to three months is perhaps too simplistic and not the most effective way of dealing with this problem.