Cannot Import Dekart root certificate

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue Feb 25 12:30:02 2003


On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:47:38 +0100, Bernhard Reiter said:

> The hash algorithm OID in the certificate is unkown to libgcrypt.
> http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/1.3.14.3.2.13.html
> OID description: DSA with SHA algorithm

That is SHA-*0* - the first and severe broken SHA version.  It is not
used by anyone except that JDK 1.1 used this OID accidently for SHA-1.
We can't do anything about it, get a non-broken certificate. 


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner