Re: rsa ontology in cert namespace

On 22 Nov 2011, at 13:17, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

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> On 2011-11 -21, at 12:58, Henry Story wrote:
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>> If we move the rsa ontology to cert namespace we may need to add rsa prefixes, to distinguish an rsa parameter from a dsa or other parameter -- but perhaps we don't have to - I suppose this would be a good reason to have a DSA ontology, just to see if there are clashes. In any case here is what this would give the following 
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> Is there a sense in which the exponent of an RSA key and that of a DSA key are the same property and 
> should just be cert:exponent?

You could take that view with the modulus — they are both integer values constituting the same thing, albeit as part of different sets of calculations (and I'm assuming there'll be cert:RSAPublicKey and cert:DSAPublicKey classes to differentiate them).

Given that, you could specify, covering the needs of both RSA & DSA:

cert:exponent (cert:RSAPublicKey)
cert:modulus (cert:RSAPublicKey, cert:DSAPublicKey)
cert:divisor (cert:DSAPublicKey)
cert:generator (cert:DSAPublicKey)
cert:keyValue (cert:DSAPublicKey) (I couldn't think of a better name)

…which seems to be a pretty reasonable approach.

M.

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