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Re: digital certificate
At 10:23 PM +0530 6/11/01, Sridhar J wrote:
> Is it a common practise / complusory that a CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY
>will use the same cryptographic algorithm to sign the certificate for the
>public key info of a user which it is authenticating ...???
It is common practice but not at all compulsory. At the last bakeoff,
a few vendors tested with accepting DSA certs under an RSA root and
it worked fine.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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