RE: Comments on core-991001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [mailto:dee3@torque.pothole.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 9:38 PM
> To: W3c-Ietf-Xmldsig (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Comments on core-991001 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the comments, see a few responses below...
> 
> From:  "Jim Schaad (Exchange)" <jimsch@EXCHANGE.MICROSOFT.com>

> >6.  Based on input from mailing list -- please change 
> c14nAlg as an element
> >to fully spelled out.
> 
> People wanted Signature spelled out and a few other things but I'm not
> sure about alg.  Given that it is immediately followed by an
> "Alogrithm" attribute, it seem awefully redundant to spell it out.

My worry is less about Alg than c14n.

> 
> >7.  Section 4.3.1 - I know that we were one of the people 
> who wanted to make
> >the location optional.  What we had in mind was the 
> following statement:
> >"If the location is omitted, then the content being signed 
> is the first
> >Object in the immeadiate surrounding Signature."
> 
> Do you mean "... in the element immediately surrounding the
> Signature."?

No, I mean the immeadiate surrounding Signature

<Signature>
  <SigInfo/>
  <SignatureValue/>
  <Object/>
<Signature/>

The location in the SigInfo references the object in the Signature block.

> >12.  Please remove references to AES algorithms.  There will 
> be a block
> >cipher finalist bext year and there is no hash yet. .
> 
> I think there should be a note saying we expect these things to come
> along but not table entries for them.

Why do we even make that statement?  We should just update the RFC when and
if they come out.  I see no benifits in saying it will be coming, there are
a large number of things that I see as coming that are not listed.  How does
the fact they they are coming change this specification?

> >
> >Jim Schaad and Barbara Fox
> >Microsoft
> >	-
> 
> Thanks,
> Donald
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