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Re: Comments on the 6 Apr Draft

From: Al Sutton <al@alsutton.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 19:24:10 +0100
Message-ID: <002001c0defe$f66ef460$fc32dec2@internal.jacobsrimell.com>
To: "Blair Dillaway" <blaird@microsoft.com>, "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>
Cc: <xml-encryption@w3.org>, "Philippe Le Hegaret" <plh@w3.org>
Hi,

I've just read the last message in this thread and I have a couple of
questions.

 If

<1>
    <a/>
    <b/>
</1>

goes to...

<1>
    <EncryptedData/>
    <EncryptedData/>
</1>

Then how can a and b be reconstructed as a and b during the decryption
process?, and if there is some method then shouldn't the encrypted version
of the children not give any clue as to the number of children that are
encyrpted in order to limit the information given to a potential attacker?

Hope these aren't stupid,

Al.
Received on Thursday, 17 May 2001 14:27:16 GMT

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