Re: Encryption: Decryption Transform for XML Signature

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  $Revision: 1.9 $ on $Date: 2001/10/31 22:26:23 $ GMT by $Author: reagle $
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Ok, I've had another go at re-organizing the processing rules and add some 
explanatory text. Please let me know if it's ok.


On Monday 01 October 2001 9:23, Takeshi Imamura wrote:
> >Could you remind me why we need to do the serialization and dummy node
> >wrapping again? (We'll need some text for the spec, because if I'm still
> >getting confused as to why we need to do all these serializations and
> >parsing others will wonder too!)
> >
> >With respect to importation... I suppose I could remove the node e.
>
> Decrypt
>
> >the node e. Now I have octets representing the UTF-8 encoding of XML
> >characters. You're saying XPath doesn't tell us how to re-insert this?
>
> Yes.  So we decided to replace a given node-set totally with another
> newly created node-set.  To do this, the given node-set has to be
> serialized as a whole, decrypt-and-replaced, and then parsed.

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* 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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