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Re: Widgets 1.0: Digital Signature feedback

From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:37:39 +1000
Message-ID: <b21a10670805271837i367e1bc4l276624911594fffa@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Marcos Caceres" <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, md84419@googlemail.com, public-appformats@w3.org

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote:
> I'd suggest that you just reuse the algorithm URIs from the various
> XML security specs in the autoupdate spec. Also, note MD5 is pretty
> much dead these days, so there is no point whatsoever in giving it
> any special status.

The hash check is kinda pointless because the widget must do a CRC
check on the file entries prior to instantiation, so I might just take
it out of the auto-updates proposal.

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Marcos Caceres
http://datadriven.com.au
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