- From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:27:32 -0500 (EST)
- To: DEMERJIAN <demerjia@enst.fr>
- cc: "w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
> { PKCS#7 has become the basis of S/MIME, SET,
This means that S/MIME, SET, etc use PKCS#7 format. (Like most crypto
work, PKCS7 is extensible...)
> Does xmlDSIG use pkcs#7? or xmlDSIG uses the same method (or logic) as
> that of pkcs#7?
Almost everything that PKCS7 provides can be found in XMLDSIG, but in
an XML orientation.
> What is the relation between pkcs#7 and XMLDSIG?
Consider pkcs#7 an "ancestor." :)
/r$
Received on Monday, 24 February 2003 07:27:33 UTC