- From: Christian Geuer-Pollmann <geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:11:49 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, reagle@w3.org
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, xml-encryption@w3.org
>> If a document is (partially) encrpyted, transcoded, and then >> decrypted, the resulting octets must be the same as if the document >> had been (partially) encrypted, decrypted, and then transcoded. > > IOW, the transcoder must be able to decrypt/encrypt as well? No. If you transcode an (partially) encrypted Document, you transcode the encrypted form only (the envelope). If the intended recipient decrypts the encrypted Contents, he gets octets which are a UTF-8 sequence which must be transcoded into the actual document encoding. Christian
Received on Wednesday, 9 January 2002 07:08:35 UTC