- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:05:54 -0400
- To: Donald Eastlake <lde008@dma.isg.mot.com>
- Cc: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org, lde008@dma.isg.mot.com
At 11:28 7/11/2001, Donald Eastlake wrote: >Regardless of how things come out with what we recommend >for base64, I suggest the addition of some material in >3.2 Core Validation as show in the attachment. Don, Instead of repeatedly spreading it out, it's not text as the top of the validation section: http://www.w3.org/Signature/Drafts/xmldsig-core/Overview.html#sec-CoreValidation revision: 1.103 >3.2 Core Validation >... >Comparison of values in reference and signature validation >are over the numeric or decoded octet sequence of the value. >Different implementations may produce different encoded digest and >signature values when processing the same resources because of >variances in their encoding, such as accidental white space. However, what do you mean by numeric *or* decoded octet? -- Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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