- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:24:08 -0500
- To: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: <w3c-xml-protocol-wg@w3.org>, "'xenc'" <xml-encryption@w3.org>, www-xenc-xmlp-tf@w3.org
On Friday 14 December 2001 19:01, David Orchard wrote: > Can you repost the scenarios, and I at least guarantee that I will > respond? My "anonymous forwarder" contribution is [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xenc-xmlp-tf/2001Sep/0000.html I welcome comments, modifications, and other scenarios. If folks pitch in and we get a couple scenarios with some discussion on each from folks familiar with xenc and xp, we can pull them together into a document. > I understand why you would consider usage scenarios optional. But > another perspective is that if you ask me (speaking for myself, not xmlp) > to review a doc and I say I don't understand how it works The XML Encryption specification should explain how XML Encryption works. It has an Overview with simple examples/scenarios: [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core/#sec-Overview If it doesn't sufficiently explain how to encrypt an element or element content then we need to improve the spec. Protocol requirements and scenarios are best known by XP folks. (I expect my old cypherpunk imaginings are quite far removed from what people are doing with SOAP today!) For instance, from [1] does anyone in your community care about an anonymous remailer type service? From your understanding of the XP domain will people want to encrypt payloads only, headers, both? Do people want to recursively encrypt/process encrypted SOAP blobs? (For instance, a SOAP payload is an EncrypedData, after you decrypt it you have a complete SOAP message again in hand with its own header and payload?) We need people from communities with their applications requirements/scenarios in mind to then test those requirements/scenarios with our specified functionality. If anyone has scenarios or questions in mind please join and contribute to: www-xenc-xmlp-tf@w3.org . Subscribe: www-xenc-xmlp-tf-request@w3.org In Subject: (un)subscribe http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xenc-xmlp-tf/ -- 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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