Re: Spec/Proposal Draft

Joseph,

>>Also the definition of "EncryptedKey" is totally
>>lacked.
>
>?this is section 3.4.1

I mean the schema for the KeyInfo element does not contain an item for the
EncryptedKey element:

<element ref="enc:EncryptedKey" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>


>> >4. 4. 2. If the data being encrypted is an external octet sequence,
>> replace the value with the encrypted result and create an EncryptedData
>> structure
>>  referencing the encrypted data.
>>Is it necessary to replace the value with the encrypted result?  If a
user
>>has no write permission to the value, this process will fail.
>
>This is kind of philosophical, but when we encrypt, should we speak of
>copying the original document and making the changes, or replacing the
>original document?

I think that depends on applications and so we don't have to specify
whether the original document has to be replaced or not.

Thanks,
Takeshi IMAMURA
Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Research
imamu@jp.ibm.com

Received on Thursday, 29 March 2001 03:39:00 UTC