Re: XML Signatures and binary files

At 08:34 5/17/2001 -0400, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>Close, but I would think it would be more like
>
><Object Id="arbitraryBase64EncodedData"
>         Encoding="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#base64"
>         MimeType="application/octet-stream">

The reason this concerned me is I think the spec is a bit ambigous on this 
note. In your instance the Encoding and MimeType are redundant -- I think? 
Or is the MimeType the type of the object regardless of its encoding?

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