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diff --git a/g10/sig-check.c b/g10/sig-check.c
index a01b7e083..bf8945e8b 100644
--- a/g10/sig-check.c
+++ b/g10/sig-check.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/* sig-check.c - Check a signature
- * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
- * 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
+ * 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
*
* This file is part of GnuPG.
*
@@ -280,6 +280,32 @@ do_check( PKT_public_key *pk, PKT_signature *sig, MD_HANDLE digest,
rc = pubkey_verify( pk->pubkey_algo, result, sig->data, pk->pkey );
mpi_free( result );
+ if(rc==G10ERR_BAD_SIGN && is_RSA(pk->pubkey_algo)
+ && sig->digest_algo==DIGEST_ALGO_SHA224)
+ {
+ /* This code is to work around a SHA-224 problem. RFC-4880
+ and the drafts leading up to it were published with the
+ wrong DER prefix for SHA-224. Unfortunately, GPG pre-1.4.8
+ used this wrong prefix. What this code does is take all
+ bad RSA signatures that use SHA-224, and re-checks them
+ using the old, incorrect, DER prefix. Someday we should
+ remove this code, and when we do remove it, pkcs1_encode_md
+ can be made into a static function again. Note that GPG2
+ does not have this issue as it uses libgcrypt, which is
+ being fixed while it is still a development version. */
+
+ /* The incorrect SHA-224 DER prefix used in pre-1.4.8 */
+ static byte asn[]={0x30, 0x31, 0x30, 0x0d, 0x06, 0x09, 0x60, 0x86,
+ 0x48, 0x01, 0x65, 0x03, 0x04, 0x02, 0x04, 0x05,
+ 0x00, 0x04, 0x20};
+
+ result=pkcs1_encode_md(digest,DIGEST_ALGO_SHA224,28,
+ mpi_get_nbits(pk->pkey[0]),asn,DIM(asn));
+
+ rc=pubkey_verify(pk->pubkey_algo,result,sig->data,pk->pkey);
+ mpi_free(result);
+ }
+
if( !rc && sig->flags.unknown_critical )
{
log_info(_("assuming bad signature from key %s"