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Re: deprecating MD5 in signature verification for gnutls-{cli, serv}


From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Subject: Re: deprecating MD5 in signature verification for gnutls-{cli, serv}
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:31:12 -0500
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On 01/05/2009 01:48 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> If the only MD5 used in signatures is in the _trusted_ CA cert (and not
> in the leaf and intermediate certificates) it is OK. But it is not the
> case of the support.mayfirst.org site. But I don't see how the removal
> of the last selfsigned certificate from the chain could break the
> algorithm. There must be some different bug in play.

I agree with this assessment.  It would be really useful in debugging if
certtool was able to use the same internal algorithm that the other
tools use.  I'm sorry that i haven't had the time to debug this further yet.

        --dkg

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