Re: content type decryption clarification?

>Note: If the Type is "content" the plaintext resulting from decryption may
>not be well-formed if (a) the original plaintext was not well-formed
(e.g.,
>PCDATA by itself is not well-formed), or (b) the EncryptedData element was
>the root element of a document that was decrypted.)

If you mean "plaintext" is an octet sequence obtained by decrypting an
EncryptedData element, I understand the first case where the plaintext was
not and hence *will* not be well-formed.  But I don't still understand the
second case.  Why does well-formedness of the plaintext depend on whether
an EncryptedData element was the root element or not?

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

Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2002 00:11:31 UTC