From Fedora 11's FreeRADIUS /etc/raddb/certs/README file: The default certificate configuration files uses MD5 for message digests, to maintain compatibility with network equipment that supports only this algorithm. While the md5 -> sha1 signature algorithm transition was refused by upstream (yet) due compatibility reasons: http://www.mail-archive.com/freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org/msg56843.html Fedora 11's FreeRADIUS etc/raddb/certs/README contains recommendation to use SHA1 signature algorithm instead of MD5 where possible. Add the same "SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS" to F10's FreeRADIUS /etc/raddb/certs/README file: SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS The default certificate configuration files uses MD5 for message digests, to maintain compatibility with network equipment that supports only this algorithm. MD5 has known weaknesses and is discouraged in favor of SHA1 (see http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/836068 for details). If your network equipment supports the SHA1 signature algorithm, we recommend that you change the "ca.cnf", "server.cnf", and "client.cnf" files to specify the use of SHA1 for the certificates. To do this, change the 'default_md' entry in those files from 'md5' to 'sha1'. References: ----------- http://www.mail-archive.com/freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org/msg56846.html
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fixed in 2.1.8-2 The /etc/raddb/certs/{ca.cnf,server.cnf,client.cnf} files were all patched to use sha1 instead of md5. At the same time I reduced the validity period from 1 year to 2 months because the certificate configuration is for temporary certificates useful only for initial testing. BTW, the certificates are now generated automatically on first install, see bug #526559
freeradius-2.1.8-2.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/freeradius-2.1.8-2.fc12
freeradius-2.1.8-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.