- From: Brian LaMacchia <bal@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:52:06 -0700
- To: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. [mailto:reagle@w3.org] > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:51 AM > To: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd > Cc: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org; Brian LaMacchia > Subject: Re: Comments on 22 June Version... > > >Section 4.4.5: Seems a bit odd in just saying that PGPKeyID is a > >string. Actually, I belive, PGPKeyID's are 8 octet binary quantities > >so it would seem like it should say they are Base64 encoded... > > I'm not sure. Brian? [bal] Don's right, PGP Key IDs are 64-bit values. I suspect we said "string" here because traditionally PGP clients display KeyIDs as "0x"-prefixed hex strings (and usually only the low 32 bits at that). It seems reasonable to me to change PGPKeyID to be a Base64-encoded value; I can't see any reason to introduce yet another encoding into XMLDSIG. --bal
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