- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:04:13 -0500
- To: <hirsch@zolera.com>, <xml-encryption@w3.org>
On Friday 11 January 2002 10:23, Frederick Hirsch wrote: > Shouldn't the application do this transcoding? This way the decryptor can > provide an application the decryption result in UTF-8 and it is up to the > app to know the transcoding (since a general decryptor may not support > all encodings) My understanding is that sentence is about the decryptor, "The decryptor SHOULD support the ability to replace the EncryptedData... The application supplies the XML document context and identifies the EncryptedData element being replaced. If the document into which the replacement is occuring is not UTF-8, the decryptor MUST transcode the UTF-8 encoded characters into the target encoding." The option you advocate is the 2nd one, "The decryptor MUST be able to return the value of Type and the UTF-8 encoded XML character data." However, the decryptor SHOULD be able to do it, and if it does then it MUST be able to handle the target encoding. -- 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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