Re: x509 certificate signature algorithm question

2009-08-20 Thread David Stutzman
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: On 2009-08-19 15:12 PDT, David Keeler wrote: Wan-Teh Chang wrote: I think "rsa encryption" is a public key algorithm, where as "sha1 with rsa encryption" is a signature algorithm. Thank you for the quick response. This isn't quite what I was getting at, though. I gues

Re: x509 certificate signature algorithm question

2009-08-19 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2009-08-19 15:12 PDT, David Keeler wrote: > Wan-Teh Chang wrote: >> I think "rsa encryption" is a public key algorithm, where as >> "sha1 with rsa encryption" is a signature algorithm. > > Thank you for the quick response. This isn't quite what I was getting > at, though. I guess my question

Re: x509 certificate signature algorithm question

2009-08-19 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Typically, that means MD5 with RSA Encryption. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:12 PM, David Keeler wrote: > Wan-Teh Chang wrote: >> >> I think "rsa encryption" is a public key algorithm, where as >> "sha1 with rsa encryption" is a signature algorithm. > > Thank you for the quick response.  This isn't qu

Re: x509 certificate signature algorithm question

2009-08-19 Thread David Keeler
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: I think "rsa encryption" is a public key algorithm, where as "sha1 with rsa encryption" is a signature algorithm. Thank you for the quick response. This isn't quite what I was getting at, though. I guess my question really should be: I have a certificate that says its "

Re: x509 certificate signature algorithm question

2009-08-19 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM, David Keeler wrote: > Hello, > I have a question that should be pretty simple to answer, but I haven't been > able to do so on my own. > Is there a (or rather, what is the) difference between having an x509 (ssl) > certificate with a signature algorithm of "rsa enc

x509 certificate signature algorithm question

2009-08-19 Thread David Keeler
Hello, I have a question that should be pretty simple to answer, but I haven't been able to do so on my own. Is there a (or rather, what is the) difference between having an x509 (ssl) certificate with a signature algorithm of "rsa encryption" versus "sha1 with rsa encryption"? (Is it that the