- From: Phillip M Hallam-Baker <pbaker@verisign.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:20:33 -0400
- To: <dee3@us.ibm.com>, <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
> Throw > away too little information and insignificant changes such as, for most > applications, changing the character encoding or the line endings > character > sequence, breaks the signatures, making them useless. Will make them useless if you send them over a network which does not preserve these characteristics. If you insist that the network makes no transformations there is no problem. I don't know of any network which transforms local time into GMT in the body of a message 'by accident'. We should only look to support data corruption which is intrinsic to existing networks where the corruption introduced is readily characterized. I don't consider the manifest format issue to be one of c18n. It is a straight syntax issue. If the manifest is transmitted over an 8 bit clean channel (MIME attachment or HTTP) there should be no need to perform canonicalization at the other end. Phill
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