Re: New Attachments Issues from Rich Salz on 2003-06-11 (xml-dist-app@w3.org from June 2003)

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:54:50 -0400
To: Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com>
CC: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>, XMLP Dist App <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3EE742BA.3020507@datapower.com>

>> I thought the expectation was that dig-sig or encryption would work on
>> canonical base64 representation of the data.

Yuk.

Crypto operations should work on the "real" data, not a translation of 
it.  XML DSIG defines a base-64 transform to make it easy to send base64 
data, but you're supposed to decode it before operating on it.
	/r$

Received on Wednesday, 11 June 2003 10:57:20 UTC