Windows 10: Windows 10 -Using Remote Desktop Services with a SHA256 (SHA-2)? How?

Hello,
I've searched the internet high and low to find the answer to this problem and have not come up with much.

I have Windows 10 Professional and I run a remote desktop protocol in order to access my PC remotely. The self-signed certificated which is auto-generated by Windows (in order to support the TLS encryption) is SHA1. I work in the security industry and I understand that SHA1 is phasing out.

What is the process to upgrade this auto-generated certificate so that it will use SHA256? The closest article I've been able to find is here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2001849, but it discusses replacing the RDP certificate with a custom SHA1 cert: it says nothing about SHA2.

All the articles I can find about this refer to Windows Server 2008/2012. There is NOTHING about Windows 10.

Does anybody know how to accomplish this?

Thanks
Bob

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Using Remote Desktop Services with a self-signed SHA256 (SHA-2) certificate - help!

Hello,

I've searched the internet high and low to find the answer to this problem and have not come up with much.

I run a remote desktop protocol in order to access my PC remotely. The self-signed certificated which is auto-generated by Windows (in order to support the TLS encryption) is SHA1. I work in the security industry and I understand that SHA1 is phasing out.

What is the process to upgrade this auto-generated certificate so that it can use SHA256? The closest article I've been able to find is here,
but it discusses replacing the RDP certificate with a custom SHA1 cert: it says nothing about SHA2.

Does anybody know how to accomplish this?

Thanks

Bob

 

Using Remote Desktop Services with a self-signed SHA256 (SHA-2) certificate - help!

Hi Robert,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

As the issue is related to remote desktop service, I suggest you to ask your query in the Microsoft TechNet forum please refer the link below:

Technet forums - Windows 10 IT Pro

I hope the above information helps. If you have any other queries related to Windows 10, feel free to reply and I'll be happy to further assist you.

 

Well it looks like I'm going to answer my own question.
Sometime between 9/7/16 and 9/30/16, Microsoft released an update which apparently automatically corrected this.

I checked and my RDP cert is now SHA256 *Smile

Thanks
Bob

 

Hi

I have the same issue, I was wondering if you may be able to give me a list of the hotfixes installed on your server during the time you mentioned so I can compare with ours? I can't find any info on recent Microsoft hotfixes that fixes this issue :-(

Thanks.

 

Hello,
To clarify, this is not a Server edition, this is Windows 10 Pro.

So I'm not sure which fixed it but one of two changes were made around that time:

1) there was an extensive cumulative update at the end of September which I downloaded and installed

2) towards the begging of October I got a new PC so I did a clean install, using a Windows 10 boot CD. I installled all the latest updates right away.

Unfortunately I did not check the status of the cert until shortly before I posted my update here...

Hope that gives some guidance.

Good luck!
Bob