- From: Gregor Karlinger <Gregor.Karlinger@iaik.at>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:10:09 +0100
- To: ML W3C XML-Signature <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <38B12B21.13A443F4@iaik.at>
I have a problem with understanding what the KeyInfo->KeyValue element should
contain.
Among other things KeyValue is a possible child of KeyInfo, as it is
stated in section 4.4:
<!ELEMENT KeyInfo ((KeyName | KeyValue | RetrievalMethod |
X509Data | PGPData | MgmtData)*) >
Now, if one wants to produce a Signature using the DSA algorithm, section 6.4.1
tells that the DSA key values are defined as follows:
<!ELEMENT DSAKeyValue (P, Q, G, Y, J?, (Seed, PgenCounter)?) >
<!ELEMENT P (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Q (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT G (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Y (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT J (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Seed (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT PgenCounter (#PCDATA) >
So, what does that mean for the KeyInfo element? As I would interpret our draft,
the following instance of KeyInfo is valid:
<KeyInfo>
<KeyValue>
<DSAKeyValue>
<P> ... </P>
<Q> ... </Q>
<G> ... </G>
<Y> ... </Y>
</DSAKeyValue>
</KeyValue>
</KeyInfo>
Please can somebody tell me if I am right? (Wheter or not I am right, I think there
is a need for some clarification on that topic).
By the way, in the example given in section 10 also DSA is used as signature method.
KeyInfo is printed as follows:
<KeyInfo>
<KeyValue>MIIBtzCCASwGByqGSM44BAEwggEfAoGBAP1/U4EddRIpUt9KnC7s5Of2EbdSPO9EAMMeP4
2USZpRV1AIlH7WT2NWPq/xfW6MPbLm1Vs14E7gB00b/JmYLdrmVClpJ+f6AR7ECLCT7up1/63xhv4O
1fnxqimFQ8E+4P208UewwI1VBNaFpEy9nXzrith1yrv8iIDGZ3RSAHHAhUAl2BQjxUjC8yykrmCouu
EC/BYHPUCgYEA9+GghdabPd7LvKtcNrhXuXmUr7v6OuqC+VdMCz0HgmdRWVeOutRZT+ZxBxCBgLRJF
nEj6EwoFhO3zwkyjMim4TwWeotUfI0o4KOuHiuzpnWRbqN/C/ohNWLx+2J6ASQ7zKTxvqhRkImog9/
hWuWfBpKLZl6Ae1UlZAFMO/7PSSoDgYQAAoGAQFL0+RhXZbDxdt17o05PlMzQGqDnAq2NM1eun+ie2
14okrmIp4r0CGKvHM1HbFgwXMlBpkXyStYg64RTMnL9dtShw5rCkEv145TV0EYVoxBQ5X0gmrQ2Nft
RHH8imBhx9glz//y6NE4JhfIVPu3o+55VYUwdFP0cbBvWkKOngo0=
</KeyValue>
</KeyInfo>
I don't think that this is a possible option. Any comments?
Gregor
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Gregor Karlinger
mailto://gregor.karlinger@iaik.at
Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications
Austria
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Received on Monday, 21 February 2000 07:11:31 UTC