Re: Decryption Transform processing question

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:52, Ari Kermaier wrote:
> Y = decryptXML(X, e, C)
>
>          where X is a node-set, e is an element node with the type
>          xenc:EncryptedData in X, and C is a parsing context of X.
>          Y is a node-set obtained by the following steps:
>
> 1.      Decrypt e and replace it with the resulting octet stream
>          according to the XML Encryption specification [XML-Encryption]
>          (which may require serializing X).

If e is an elemenote node in X, how am I replacing it with octets? (Also, 
is the serialization *any* serialization, or stil the one in xmldsig?) 

> 2.      Wrap the result of Step 2 in the context of C as specified in
> Text Wrapping (Appendix A).

This is step 2, maybe this should be step one now?

(I'm not disagreeing with these tweaks in the spec; I just don't understand 
them yet! <smile/>)

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Received on Wednesday, 1 May 2002 11:09:35 UTC