- From: Richard D. Brown <rdbrown@Globeset.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:27:19 -0500
- To: "'John Boyer'" <jboyer@uwi.com>, "'Joseph M. Reagle Jr.'" <reagle@w3.org>, <dee3@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: "'IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG'" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Joseph, john,
>
> <John> For example, having the signature directly sign the data by
> enveloping the data inside of the manifest. </John>
>
This is an option that I have promoted since Boston meeting. Interesting
enough, it looks pretty much like an RDF second basic abbreviation syntax.
Before Simplification
---------------------
<Element id='signed-data'>
...
</Element>
<Signature>
...
<Resource>
<Locator href='signed-data'>
</Resource>
...
</Signature>
After Simplification
--------------------
<Signature>
...
<Resource>
<Element id='signed-data'>
...
</Element>
</Resource>
...
</Signature>
ATTENTION: JUST FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES...
Establishing a parallel with RDF simplification might give us a solution to
the problem raised by canonicalization of an embedded resource value (see
previous email with David Solo). I have to think over that a bit more...
Richard D. Brown
Received on Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:27:48 UTC