From 2d7f0c30d34a4f8128e25eb87b0400be812f336b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: source Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:05:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] MD5/SHA1 migration explained git-svn-id: http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/Policies@1961 14b1bab8-4ef6-0310-b690-991c95c89dfd --- CertificationPracticeStatement.html | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/CertificationPracticeStatement.html b/CertificationPracticeStatement.html index 22e443a..e6ad9fc 100755 --- a/CertificationPracticeStatement.html +++ b/CertificationPracticeStatement.html @@ -2961,7 +2961,9 @@ No limitation is placed on Subscriber key sizes.

CAcert X.509 root and intermediate keys are currently 4096 bits. X.509 roots use RSA and sign with the SHA-1 message digest algorithm. +Certificates have been signed until 2004 with MD5, since 2005 SHA-1 or better algorithms are used. See §4.3.1. +

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6.1.6. Public key parameters generation and quality checking