RE: KeyInfo and raw data (RetrievalMethod Types) from Scott Cantor on 2009-02-16 (public-xmlsec@w3.org from February 2009)

From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:12:49 -0500
To: "'Thomas Roessler'" <tlr@w3.org>, "'XMLSec WG'" <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Message-ID: <045f01c99049$08102d20$18308760$@2@osu.edu>

Thomas Roessler wrote on 2009-02-16:
> I can't quite tell whether these are intended to identify raw, binary
> data (which, in case we're referring to something that lives in the
> same XML document, would probably have to be base64 decoded through a
> ds:Transform), or whether it's intended for base64 encoded versions of
> the raw data.

I believe it's intended to be raw, unencoded DER. That's how I always
interpreted it.

-- Scott

Received on Monday, 16 February 2009 15:13:35 UTC