Re: Enveloped-signature games with pre-c14n

Hi Christian, It is. Your statement merely disallowed
certain transforms, not certain URIs. -- Merlin

r/geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de/2001.08.24/13:26:01
>Hi Merlin
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>But if I apply #enveloped-signature #xpath with here()-usage to a non-local =
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>URI, this is an error, isn't it?
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>--On Freitag, 24. August 2001 09:12 +0100 merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie> =
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>> That doesn't cover the case of applying the transform to a non-local URI.
>> At most, a sentence saying that enveloped signature cannot be applied to
>> a resource other than a node set from the original signature document.
>> Given that the usage seems nonsensical, I'm not sure that even this is
>> really necessary.
>>>> If you perform c14n/reparse, then you have a new document.
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>>> Sorry fo bugging again. Could this be done by saying in the spec:
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>>>   "It's not possible to apply Transforms that produce octet
>>>    stream output (like base64 or c14n) prior to
>>>    #enveloped-signature transform or an #xpath transform
>>>    that uses the here() function."
>>>
>>> Would this make sense?
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
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