- From: Takeshi Imamura <IMAMU@jp.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:24:30 +0900
- To: reagle@w3.org
- Cc: Blair Dillaway <blaird@microsoft.com>, xml-encryption@w3.org
>> I believe the spec does not have to care whether the resulting octets is >> a literal key or not. As Blair illustrated in [1], the key may be >> encoded in a structure. That is because the key should be processed not >> by the implementation of the spec but by that of the algorithm for the >> key, optionally by consulting the Type attribute of the EncryptedKey >> element. >> >> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-encryption/2002Jan/0075.htmle > >Ok, sounds good. I've tweaked 3.4.1 to have the following two sentences now: > >"When EncryptedKey is decrypted the resulting octets are made available to >the EncryptionMethod algorithm without any additional processing." > >"The Type attribute inheritted from EncryptedType can be used to further >specify the type of the encrypted key if the EncryptionMethod Algorithm >does not define a unambigous encoding/representation. (Note, all the >algorithms in this specifications have an unambigous representation for >their associated key structures.)" These look good to me. I don't see any problem. Thanks, Takeshi IMAMURA Tokyo Research Laboratory IBM Research imamu@jp.ibm.com
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