- From: TAMURA Kent <kent@trl.ibm.co.jp>
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:33:39 +0900
- To: ambarish@valicert.com, w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
In message "Using DOMHASH with XML DSig"
on 00/09/01, Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com> writes:
> - Are other groups trying to use DOMHASH with XML DSig
> - Are there strong feelings in this group about the advisability of
> doing so?
> - If DOMHASH is used as the canonicalization method, does that
> mean that you sign the hash generated by DOMHASH or do you ask
> DOMHASH to give you a canonical representation of the document
> and then sign that?
Canonicalization and digesting are not able to be separated in
DOMHASH. If you use DOMHASH as a Canonicalization method or a
Transform, digest calculation is done twice. I guess DOMHASH is
slower than W3C C14n.
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TAMURA Kent @ Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM
Received on Monday, 4 September 2000 01:34:32 UTC