RE: Attribute encryption & Blair's message

What's wrong with saying if you want to encrypt an attribute, encrypt the
element
that contains it?  I'm still waiting for a good example why the additional
application complexity
of selective encryption of attributes inside elements is needed; ie, I await
an explicit
response to the questions and response on this topic
 posed in Blair Dillaway's most recent message to this list.
 
 Thane Plambeck 
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