- From: Mark Bartel <mbartel@thistle.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:17:53
- To: Gregor Karlinger <gregor.karlinger@iaik.at>, xmldsig <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Gregor Karlinger wrote: > I suggest to tweak the text as follows: > > While we specify a mandatory and optional to implement SignatureMethod > algorithms, > user specified algorithms are permitted. Both algorithms specified by this > specification and user specified ones MUST use Base64 [MIME] as their > encoding > method. Hi Gregor, The idea behind not specifying an encoding attribute was to avoid a potential interoperability nightmare with people specifying arbitrary encodings. There is no need for it. However, base64 may not be the optimal encoding in user-defined cases, particularly if the data is already in text or xml format. Therefore the current text. -Mark Bartel JetForm Corporation
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