[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#763408: chromium: does not display ECC certificate algorithms

[brian m. carlson]

Package: chromium
Version: 37.0.2062.120-2
Severity: minor

Chromium ships with ECC certificates[0], but when viewing the
Certificate Signature Algorithm or Subject Public Key Algorithm fields,
they are displayed as OIDs.  Presumably Chromium knows how to handle
these algorithms to perform cryptographic operations, so it should be
also able to display the algorithms in an appropriate human-readable
form.  The user would probably be interested to know that the more
secure SHA-384 hash algorithm is used here instead of, say, SHA-1.

Please consider adding this type of human-readable output.

[0] For example, the COMODO ECC Certificate Authority
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.17-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector   37.0.2062.120-2
ii  gconf-service        3.2.6-3
ii  libasound2           1.0.28-1
ii  libc6                2.19-11
ii  libcairo2            1.12.16-5
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-6
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-2
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.8-1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.1-15
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.30.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.0-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.24-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        0.9.35-1
ii  libjpeg8             8d1-1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.17.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.7-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.7-1
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-6
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.1-15
ii  libudev1             215-5
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-2
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.4.2-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.1

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>
pn  mozplugger     <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/chromium/default changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US
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