- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:44:57 -0500
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: xml-encryption@w3.org
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 12:42, John Cowan wrote: > This seems bizarre. A partially encrypted document on this view is not > XML at all, but XML-with-interruptions: a sequence of characters, > then raw octets, then more characters. Hi John, I'm not quite sure I undersatnd this. A partially encrypted XML document is XML. It's XML that has a few xenc:EncryptedData elements. Those elements include characters in CipherValue that represent octets (which are the encrypted form of something else which I will return too) as encoded by base64Binary. Now, what is the nature of this data that has been encrypted: the plaintext? It is an octect sequence that represents in UTF-8 the characters resulting from serializing some part of an XML document. This XML fragment (the part of the original source XML that is to be encrypted) might not be well-formed in a few instances. ... I think I got that right ...? -- 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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