I am sorry to read this, Kevin. It suggests that RedHat has forgotten its open-source roots and what made it a billion dollar company in the first place. We are all familiar with the **** that companies put up with when buying some commercial products. Open-source was meant to be an answer to that problem - that quality could be vastly improved in software when there were many eyes looking at the source - not because some people just like the idea of seeing the source-code of the products they use. That RedHat was making money on services off of open-source products was perfectly acceptable - there is real value in services. But, when the open-source company starts differentiating its open-source products from its commercial products, it subverts the whole notion of open-source and what it stands for. If the fix did not exist and it was up to the open-source community to prioritize the fix, that's one thing. But when the fix *does* exist, and has been merged into the commercial branch, but is not merged into the open-source branch - that suggests deliberate manipulation of the trust and goodwill of the open-source community. Arshad Noor StrongAuth, Inc. Kevin Unthank wrote:
Hi Arshad,
Obviously, there are differences between RHCS8 and the latest release of Dogtag. Generally, new feature development takes place in dogtag and some of those features find there way back into RHCS8. Bug fixing often occurs first in RHCS8 and those fixes are ported to dogtag.
PKI with only SHA-2 hashes is a fix that was made in the RHCS8 code tree and released in both source binary form in errata RHBA-2009-1602. That fix will make it into dogtag builds but I can't commit to a specific release or date when this will happen.
Until then it should be possible to work around the problem by using pkisilent or the renewal method suggested by Andrew.
Cheers, Kev
On 04/08/2010 10:55 AM, Arshad Noor wrote:
Can someone from the DogTag Engineering team confirm that a PKI with only SHA-2 hashes *cannot* be built with the current version of the product?
I find this hard to believe given that the RHCS documentation seems to indicate that it is possible to do so, and given that the underlying code already has SHA-2 support; nevertheless, can someone confirm Oliver's finding? Thanks.
Arshad Noor StrongAuth, Inc.
P.S. Since the RHCS 8.0 documentation does state that SHA-2 hashes can be configured at the time the self-signed cert is created, does that imply that the commercial RHCS is technologically different from the open-source DogTag? And, that it isn't just a question of RedHat support?
Oliver Burtchen wrote:
Hi @ all,
I also tried to change from "SHA1withRSA" to "SHA256withRSA" by editing the config files. No luck!
I found, this is hard-coded in the sources, for example in:
- pki-common-1.3.2/src/com/netscape/cms/servlet/csadmin/SizePanel.java - pki-common-1.3.2//src/com/netscape/cmscore/security/CASigningCert.java
Just look for "SHA1withRSA" in the files, I don't think this are just fallbacks. Best regards, Oli
Am Mittwoch, 7. April 2010 03:27:04 schrieb Chandrasekar Kannan:
On 04/06/2010 05:08 PM, Arshad Noor wrote:
The only option that is visible under Advanced is the key-size for each of the certificate-types. The hash algorithm does not show up at all.
Even the default, as mentioned by Step 8, is not the default as the last 10-12 installs have shown:
* SHA256withRSA (the default)
So, the question is: is the current build of DogTag in the pki repository identical to RHCS 8.0 or is it a different version? It might very well be ... we can look at the svn commits to be really sure...
Arshad Noor StrongAuth, Inc.
Chandrasekar Kannan wrote:
the installation wizard should provide 'options' under the advanced section for you to be able to select the alg to use. Have you tried doing Step (8) from here ? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/cert-system/8.0/install/html/Configur
ing_a_CA.html
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