PayPal SHA-256 notice
11 September 2015
Some of you will have received an email from PayPal regarding the replacement of their SHA-1 certificates with SHA-256 and it's impact on your shopping cart/payment process.
Our web servers have all been upgraded to support SHA-256 a long time ago, and all but one of our secure websites have also had their SSL certificates upgraded, and we'll be working with the last one to upgrade asap.
In short, we don't expect any problems or disruption to service when PayPal 'catches up' on security. If there are problems, PayPal are providing a backup service using the old SHA-1 protocol which can be used while any outstanding issues are resolved.
It should also be noted that the payment process itself is unlikely to be impacted. The affected services relate to the payment confirmation signal that we receive after successful payment.