- 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Gregor Karlinger mailto://gregor.karlinger@iaik.at Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------
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