- From: Magnus Nyström <magnus@rsa.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:22:42 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
- To: public-xmlsec@w3.org
This is to follow-up on ACTION-191 on the EC point to octet string conversion. I note that the new draft does not any longer reference ANSI X9.62, instead, it references SEC-1 for the conversion of _field elements_ to octet strings. This makes for an inconsistency between ANSI X9.62, SEC-1 and RFC 3279 on the one hand and this spec on the other hand in how EC points are represented. In the former ones, an EC Point is represented as an octet string. In the current XMLDsig draft it is represented as two octet strings, each representing one of the two the field elements constituting the point. Now I understand that it was not the idea to do a direct translation of the ASN.1 of X9.62 (or SEC-1 or RFC 3279), but I guess there is also something to be said about the simplifications that can be made by having a similar treatment of the underlying data. -- Magnus
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