- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:35:53 -0500
- To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>, Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com>, "'w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org'" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
On Friday 26 October 2001 13:00, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > Since we are dealing with the specification of an octet stream it would > be useful to see the exact octetstream output that is defined. Phill, For c14n, John Boyer had included the characters as close as possible in a comment with each example. We could do that, but I'm most interested in a tarball of examples with pre/post. > It is not clear to me (from the text) whether the indentation in the > examples is pretty printing that should be ignored or part of the C14N > and if removed whether there should be spaces tabs or whatnots between > the elements. The white space is the same as C14N. > Overall it would be useful to see a description of XML Signature itself > in the same notation, giving the exact octet stream to be presented to > the digest or signature algorithm. I'm not sure what you mean by notation. Literal octets and their digests seems to work well. -- * I will be in France from 3-9 November for the W3C AC Meeting. 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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