Encrypted Node URI and NodeType

Ed,

As stated after the Crypto BoF, in your proposal [1] I recommend you break
up your NodeType into a location (location of the EncryptedNode's encrypted
serialization -- if not present in the element content) and NodeType (the
URIs of the Information Set item provided by [2]). Instead of

<EncryptedNode xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/03/Encryption"
    NodeType="."  <!-- "." indicates the <EncryptedNode> element is right
                         where the original unencrypted element was -->
    EncryptionInfo="#encryptionInfo23">
    (Base64 of encrypted Element node)
</EncryptedNode>

this:

<EncryptedNode xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/03/Encryption"
    Location="."
    InformationSetItem="http://www.w3.org/2000/07/infoset#Element"
    EncryptionInfo="#encryptionInfo23">
    (Base64 of encrypted Element node)
</EncryptedNode>

Futhermore, if Location is intended to be a URI the "." hack/syntax for the
present node will probably be problematic. I'm presently scratching my head
about the best structure/relation of these things to each other (describing
Information Set Items/Nodes in the context of a serialized Information Set
Items/Nodes where both instances have a relationship to each other...)
Hopefully I'll post more within the week.

[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-encryption/2000Aug/att-0001/01-xmlenc
overview.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-xml-infoset-20000726

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Joseph Reagle Jr.   
W3C Policy Analyst                mailto:reagle@w3.org
IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair   http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/

Received on Wednesday, 30 August 2000 13:26:05 UTC