Weijun Max Wang wrote:
According to RFC 3370 (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3370.txt) 2.1 SHA-1:

   The AlgorithmIdentifier parameters field is OPTIONAL.  If present,
   the parameters field MUST contain a NULL.  Implementations MUST
   accept SHA-1 AlgorithmIdentifiers with absent parameters.
   Implementations MUST accept SHA-1 AlgorithmIdentifiers with NULL
   parameters.  Implementations SHOULD generate SHA-1
   AlgorithmIdentifiers with absent parameters.

But it seems openssl is still using the with-NULL mode (crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c). Is there any particular reason for this?

pkcs#1

Nils
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