Oracle Will Stop Trusting MD5-Signed JAR Files in April
Oracle has decided to give Java developers more time to ensure that their JAR files are not signed with the MD5 algorithm. Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will no longer trust these types of files starting with April 2017.
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