[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#546802: openssl: sha384 and sha512 too

[xavier renaut]

Package: openssl
Version: 1.0.1j-1
Followup-For: Bug #546802

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
PCI and general good practice security requires sha256 or more for signing certificates


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

looking in the x509 man page for sign options :

       -md2|-md5|-sha1|-mdc2
           the digest to use. This affects any signing or display option that
           uses a message digest, such as the -fingerprint, -signkey and -CA
           options. If not specified then SHA1 is used. If the key being used
           to sign with is a DSA key then this option has no effect: SHA1 is
           always used with DSA keys.


   * What was the outcome of this action?

no mention of sha256

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

doc about sha256 sha384 and sha512


thanks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (449, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openssl depends on:
ii  libc6        2.19-11
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1j-1

openssl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openssl suggests:
ii  ca-certificates  20140927

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information