At 10:59 AM 5/9/2003 -0400, Marc Hadley wrote: >On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 20:05 US/Eastern, Mark Nottingham wrote: > >>>So yes, C and D are after dumb hops. I thought the promise of PASWA was >>>supposed to be that the on the wire serialization was transparent ;-). >> >>And it is! It's only when you want to play funny games with things like >>optimisations of signatures that you have to make special allowances ;) >Which could be restated as: it is as long as you're prepared to take the >hit of base64 encoding/decoding. Base64 overhead has two parts: CPU and more bits on the wire. My bet is the CPU part would be lost in the signature computation. If we have to live with b64 in the algorithm, its ok. >Attachments is supposed to be a mechanism to avoid that :-o. We can avoid the worst one, the more bits part. >Marc. > >-- >Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com> >Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems. ______________________________________________________ John J. Barton email: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Barton/index.htm MS 1U-17 Hewlett-Packard Labs 1501 Page Mill Road phone: (650)-236-2888 Palo Alto CA 94304-1126 FAX: (650)-857-5100Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 12:23:20 GMT
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