Re: Data replacement

Joseph,

>Yes, I thought we agreed that the octets long ago that what you encrypt is
>the UTF-8 encoding of the XML data you want to secure. What other
>serializations would you want,

I don't have any concrete serialization, but one may want to serialize an
element in UTF8 and then compress it...

>what does this permit (instead of being
>presently precluded/limited), and if I understand you properly, then we'd
>need to include an attribute that indicates the encoding of the decrypted
>content, right?

Yes.  But anyway, I think I understand what the spec says, and to my
understanding, the sentence in step 3.2 for encryption:

For example, the data might be a serialization of an XML Information Set,
set of characters, binary image data, or a compressed XML element.

may be confusing because "an XML Information Set" and "a compressed XML
element" seem to hint an element or element content being encrypted.

Thanks,
Takeshi IMAMURA
Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Research
imamu@jp.ibm.com

Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2002 02:53:07 UTC