On 2/2/26 12:24 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Here's an alternative patch that will allow PKCS#7 with the hash specified on
> the command line, removing the SHA1 restriction.
> 
> David
> ---
> sign-file, pkcs7: Honour the hash parameter to sign-file
> 
> Currently, the sign-file program rejects anything other than "sha1" as the
> hash parameter if it is going to produce a PKCS#7 message-based signature
> rather than a CMS message-based signature (though it then ignores this
> argument and uses whatever is selected as the default which might not be
> SHA1 and may actually reflect whatever is used to sign the X.509
> certificate).
> 
> Fix sign-file to actually use the specified hash when producing a PKCS#7
> message rather than just accepting the default.

Is it worth keeping this sign-file code that uses the OpenSSL PKCS7 API
instead of having only one variant that uses the newer CMS API?

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Thanks,
Petr

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