If you’re thinking about moving to a SHA-2 hashing algorithm for your SSL certificate, remember that it will break in IE6 and all versions of IE on Windows XP prior to SP3. So if you’re supporting users on older machines / browsers, you’ll need to stick with SHA-1.
More information is available here.
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It won’t break IE6 on XP SP3.