Google is considering banning certificates signed with the SHA-1 cryptographic function in Google Chrome starting Jul. 1. Mozilla, Microsoft and now Google are all considering bringing the deadline forward by six months. This follows similar announcements from Mozilla and Microsoft over the past two months. In September, almost one in three of the most popular 145,000 HTTPS-enabled websites were still using a SHA.1 certificate. The advent of cheap cloud computing in recent years has signed the death warrant for the cryptographic function.”]