WinMobile SHA-2 certificate webexception

Question

I have old WinMobile device that is trying to communicate https to a web service that uses a SHA2 certificate (it was using SHA-1 without problem) and I continue to receive a WebException that it could not trust the relationship. I am currently not using an Rebex components but I read that 2016-06-30 Version 2016 R2 now supports SHA-2 certificates on all .NET Compact Framework platforms. Does this mean that there is a Rebex component that would solve this issue? If so which one?

Comments

In Rebex 2016 R2 we really added a custom managed implementation for SHA-2 on Compact Framework, but this is just the first step we need to take. For the next version of Rebex we are working on a certificate validator that will be able to validate the SHA-2 based certificates automatically in all our TLS/SSL enabled components. (For now our customers would need to supply a custom certificate verifier - e.g. fingerprint verifier to make TLS 1.1/ TLS 1.2 work on CF devices).

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Rebex HTTPS component is the product that you will need to make the Web Services working under .NET CF even with SHA-2 certificates. We officially released it as part of Rebex 2017 R1 release in February 2017. Check it out at http://www.rebex.net/https

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EDIT:

Rebex HTTPS was officially released in February 2017.

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Hello,

the product that you need is Rebex HTTPS for .NET CF and it is still currently under development labeled as experimental beta. We are working hard on releasing it as a full featured Rebex HTTPS component later. But the firm date has not been set yet.

The beta is already available for public testing, so just download the trial from http://labs.rebex.net/HTTPS and give the HTTPS component a try!
You can find code samples, sample projects, as well as current limitations directly at the labs Rebex HTTPS page.