[gnutls-devel] certtool --crq-info should show signing algorithm

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Wed Sep 17 10:08:17 CEST 2014


On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> when looking at a human-readable representation of a certificate signing
> request (CSR), certtool --crq-info currently doesn't display the
> algorithm used for the self-signature of the CSR.  (i.e. it doesn't
> indicate if it was RSAwithSHA1 or RSAwithSHA256, etc)
> It would occasionally be useful for people examining CSRs to see this
> information (i was just asked for it privately, and i think it would be
> useful too, e.g. when reviewing a CSR before submitting it to a CA).
> Does this seem reasonable?

Hello Daniel,
 It certainly does.

regards,
Nikos



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