diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 92690aabf..1b2ea8da4 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	- Algorithm rollover operational reality intrudes, for trust-anchor,
 	  5011-store, and DLV-anchor if one key matches it's good enough.
 	- iana portlist updated.
+	- Fix reported validation error in out of memory condition.
 
 15 September 2010: Wouter
 	- Abide RFC5155 section 9.2: no AD flag for replies with NSEC3 optout.
diff --git a/validator/val_sigcrypt.c b/validator/val_sigcrypt.c
index 1fe63c115..dd3a694b6 100644
--- a/validator/val_sigcrypt.c
+++ b/validator/val_sigcrypt.c
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ void algo_needs_reason(struct module_env* env, int alg, char** reason, char* s)
 			(unsigned)alg);
 	*reason = regional_strdup(env->scratch, buf);
 	if(!*reason)
-		*reason = "%s with all algorithms";
+		*reason = s;
 }
 
 enum sec_status