On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Wan-Teh Chang <w...@google.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/19 Mountie Lee <moun...@paygate.net>:
>> Hi.
>> sha256 certificate means
>> client certificate using sha256 for ssl client authentication.
>
> If you mean the signature in the TLS/SSL CertificateVerify message,
> then only TLS 1.2 allows you to use a SHA-256 signature, and NSS
> doesn't support TLS 1.2 yet.

I should clarify that NSS can still use a client certificate signed by
its CA with a SHA-256 signature to do SSL client authentication.
It's just that the signature in the CertificateVerify message will be
the format specified in TLS 1.0/SSL 3.0.

Wan-Teh
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