SHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Note: This project, and much of its documentation, was written in the fall of 2014, when SHA-1 was still very common and the transition was only beginning.

As of 2016, all CAs are required to only issue SHA-2, and SHA-1 was mostly removed from modern OSes and browsers in 2017.

This web service has been retired, but the code may still be useful for other purposes.

What this repo is

This repository contains the code for shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com, a tool which was used to check whether your site's certificate is signed using SHA-1 or SHA-2.

SHA-1 is largely gone now, and so this tool is retired. You can read more about why I originally built this tool and why replacing SHA-1 was important.

This tool does not validate certificates, or test anything besides SHA-1 vs SHA-2. For that, please visit the magnificent SSL Labs for a far more comprehensive review of your SSL configuration.

No Longer depends on openssl to download certificates. See below for a command line version.

How do I update to SHA-2?

Now that it's 2016: just get a new certificate. As of January 1 2016, all publicly trusted CAs are required to issue only SHA-2 certificates.

To update your intermediate, check what your CA is currently offering as the default, or go through the issuance process again to see what they provide you.

If you somehow get a SHA-1 certificate, or are given a SHA-1 intermediate, open an issue and the folks on this repo will be happy to badger the CA or figure out what's going on.

How can I help?

Check out the issue tracker. The biggest things are:

• How about a bookmarklet, a Firefox extension, or a Chrome extension?
• Some annoying domain errors on edge cases in Google's DNS.
• Mapping out common certificate issuers so we can easily link people to replacements.
• Hunting down more SHA-2 intermediate locations than we currently have on the site.
• More unit tests, especially for intermediate certificates and chained root certificates.
• Getting some Internet SHA-1 stats by running the command line tool over a list of top sites, like Alexa's [CSV download].

Really, just making the site better all around.

Running the current website

The website at https://shaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com is now a static site, using a frozen snapshot of the HTML in the snapshot/ directory. So if you want to reproduce that, for some reason, just point a web server at the static files in that directory.

Running the old website

The dynamic version of the app requires Node. Then, install dependencies:

npm install

And run the app:

node app.js

For best results, make sure your system is using the latest version of openssl.

To run the tests:

npm test

Tests use faucet, which should have been installed during npm install above.

Command line version

To check a domain's certificate on the command line, use this repository's command line tool:

./bin/shaaaaaaaaaaaaa sha1-2017.badssl.com

This will exit with code 0, and output formatted JSON to STDOUT:

{
  "domain": "sha1-2017.badssl.com",
  "cert": {
    "algorithm": "sha1",
    "raw": "sha1WithRSAEncryption",
    "good": false,
    "root": false,
    "expires": "2017-01-05T12:00:00.000Z",
    "name": "*.badssl.com"
  },
  "intermediates": [
    {
      "algorithm": "sha1",
      "raw": "sha1WithRSAEncryption",
      "good": false,
      "root": false,
      "replacement": "http://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertSHA2SecureServerCA.crt",
      "expires": "2023-03-08T12:00:00.000Z",
      "name": "DigiCert Secure Server CA"
    }
  ],
  "diagnosis": "bad"
}

If there's an error, you'll get some JSON with an error flag of true, and the process will exit with code 1:

$ ./bin/shaaaaaaaaaaaaa bad-domain

{
  "error": true,
  "domain": "bad-domain",
  "message": "Couldn't lookup hostname."
}

Author

This is a tiny tool by Eric Mill. Released under an MIT License.