Re: WGLC comment on draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding-03, was: Encryption content coding simplification

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In message <49a8c514-5a39-d4f6-7012-01977cbefb9c@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes
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>With that, I actually end up with something similar to one of PHK's 
>proposals:
>
>	Content-Encoding: aesgcm, aesgcm
>	CE-params: aesgcm;key="csPJEXBYA5U-Tal9EdJi-w";
>		    salt="NfzOeuV5USPRA-n_9s1Lag",
>                    aesgcm
>
>...where the only difference is that any content coding that *can* have 
>parameters MUST have an associated entry in CE-params.

I have a hard time dreaming up C-E's other than encryption which will
require parameters, but I'm all for taking the general approach up
front, rather than wait for my limited imagination to be exposed.

+1 from here

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Received on Thursday, 13 October 2016 07:40:03 UTC