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

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sun Sep 21 08:52:28 CEST 2014


On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 18:31 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor 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).

This was added in master (i.e., what to become 3.4.0).

regards,
Nikos





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