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Re: public key algorithm naming
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At 10:17 AM 4/7/98 -0700, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>Anyway, for the record, I think it's better to just use rsa-pkcs1 and
>dsa-sha1 (couldn't that just be "dss"?), but here's a little caveat: PKCS1
>doesn't specifically talk about SHA1. In fact, for RSA-with-SHA1, PKIX uses
>a non-PKCS algorithm ID (instead it's one from the OSI Interoperability
>Workshop). There's no reason I can see that SHA1 can't be used in the PKCS1
>style just like MD* are, and I'm 99.9% sure that's how its done in practice,
>but it's not actually specified in PKCS1.
FWIW, BSAFE implements RSA with SHA-1 and uses the same OID for SHA-1 that
SET uses (which I assume to be the official one).
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