Why 40 million users around the world will not be able to access the Internet securely on January 1, 2016?

The Internet is a lifeline for many individuals and companies in the world, and even the economies of the countries become more and more connected with the network, and any malfunction or problem which may cause material losses Kberh.alaadid from emerging countries around the world will be partially protected while surfing the Internet During the early hours of January 1 2016. How and why? This is what we learn in this post.


Nearly 40 million users around the world Alolouh to Web sites can not and the reason is due to the process of modernization will include the standard '' SHA-1 '' which will become the beginning of 2016 to the new standard SHA-2. Today when you use your browser Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Even Microsoft browser, you will notice the emergence of a small lock on the Address bar with a shortcut '' HTTPS '' which indicates that the site you're on Facebook, like Google ... is protected and secure.


With the beginning of 2016 will jump to the new standard for encrypting information and to ensure the security and privacy of users' data and protect them from Alachtrac.lkn problem does not lie here, but that browsers or older operating systems do not have support for the new standard, and therefore will not be able to check the authenticity and security of sites such as Facebook and other encrypted web sites. In practice, which means that the mobile phones that exceed five years old, will not be able to access these sites in a safe and protected!


China, for example, will be about 6% of the Internet users affected by this change, so on that the rest of the other countries; which means that the emerging markets will be affected mainly.

If you use Google Chrome version (39 or higher); Mozilla Firefox 37 or higher. Or Microsoft Edge, the default browser for the operating system Windows 10; there is nothing to worry about. These browsers already have the support of the standard '' SHA-2 ''. But if you are on Android 2.2 or even on Windows XP, you will suffer from this problem with the beginning of the new year. At least until a final solution.