[OpenID] Signing method for XRD

[Santosh Rajan]

I agree that in XML they are not equivalent. Yes but the signing process
itself is binary, it has nothing to do with text or its meaning. 


Hans Granqvist wrote:
> 
>> Once you digitally sign a document, though physically the document
>> remains
>> in tact and retains its content type, after the act of signing, it is
>> really
>> a frozen bunch of bits. And if you dont make that distinction you get
>> into
>> all sorts of tangles. And that was the mistake made by XMLDSig. In other
>> words after signing the Content-Type should be binary, whatever you want
>> to
>> call it. After verification it takes up its original Content-Type.
> 
> In XML these two are equivalent:
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> A signing process needs to understand this, and that is what XML Dsig
> does.
> XML was not defined to be a wire format.
> 
> Hans
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