Bug 6263 – SimpleCA is configured to use the MD5 message digest by default

Bug 6263 - SimpleCA is configured to use the MD5 message digest by default

Summary:

SimpleCA is configured to use the MD5 message digest by default

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Simple CA
Component:	Simple CA
Version:	4.2.0
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	4.2.1
Assigned To:	Joe Bester

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Keywords:	4.0.x

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Reported:	2008-07-28 13:04 by Joe Bester
Modified:	2008-08-20 14:01 (History)

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Description From Joe Bester 2008-07-28 13:04:53

Due to known weaknesses in MD5, it would be advisable to instead use SHA1 as
the default message digest algorithm for SimpleCA.

------- Comment #1 From Joe Bester 2008-08-20 14:01:55 -------

Committed updates to the globus_simple_ca_setup package to default to sha1 for
4.0 branch, 4.2 branch, and trunk. I've uploaded a script that will convert a
simple CA setup package from using md5 to sha1 by default to
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~bester/patches/bug6263.txt