[OpenID] Signing method for XRD

[Nat Sakimura]

Hmmm.

Perhaps I did not spell my intent in the original mail well enough.

My question was:

(1) Is XML DSig easy enough for you developers to use?
(2) Is XML DSig supported in your environemnt?
       e.g., Google AppEngine, Force.com, your hosting environment, your own
server, etc.
(3) If either (1) or (2) is negative, are you aimiable to use a very simple
alternative to it,
       or you do not bother signing XRD at all?

Best,

=nat

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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