- From: Mark Bartel <mbartel@thistle.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 14:33:27 -0400
- To: "'IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG '" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
One area of the spec I'd like to see discussion of is algorithm parameters.
Currently only the HMAC algorithm takes a parameter; section 7.3.1 of the
latest draft [1] shows the example:
<SignatureAlg Algorithm="urn:ietf-org:hmac-sha1">
<Parameter type="urn:ietf-org:hmac-outputlength">
<Integer value="128"/>
</Parameter>
</SignatureAlg>
I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer
<SignatureAlg Algorithm="urn:ietf-org:hmac-sha1">
<Parameter type="urn:ietf-org:hmac-outputlength">128</Parameter>
</SignatureAlg>
or even
<SignatureAlg Algorithm="urn:ietf-org:hmac-sha1">
<HmacOutputLength">128</HmacOutputLength>
</SignatureAlg>
with the HmacOutputLength element defined in the dsig namespace. The last
one is probably a non-starter (new element types for every algorithm?)...
Clearly I'm on the fence here... thoughts?
-Mark Bartel
JetForm
[1] http://www.w3.org/Signature/Drafts/WD-xmldsig-core-991008.html
Received on Friday, 8 October 1999 14:33:35 UTC