On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM, David Keeler<dkee...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have a question that should be pretty simple to answer, but I haven't been > able to do so on my own. > Is there a (or rather, what is the) difference between having an x509 (ssl) > certificate with a signature algorithm of "rsa encryption" versus "sha1 with > rsa encryption"?
I think "rsa encryption" is a public key algorithm, where as "sha1 with rsa encryption" is a signature algorithm. An RSA public key (with public key algorithm "rsa encryption") can be used to verify signatures with signature algorithms "sha1 with rsa encryption" or "md5 with rsa encryption", etc. Wan-Teh -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
