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   Re: [xml-dev] Rich & Elliotte were right, I was wrong

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> Well, on the bright side I guess the extreme overhead of basing DSIG and 
> Encryption on XPath rather than some standardized serialization of the

Extreme overhead?  Hardly.  It's just a processing model, no more or 
less efficient than infoset.

> I'd suspect that any reasonable implementation of c14n is actually 
> working at a level equivalent to the Infoset internally, anyway - it 
> just serializes the Infoset out following the special rules for c14n 
> XML. Is there any other way of handling c14n that's not equivalent to this?

You can do a SAX-based C14N.  If you think that's infoset, then I guess 
my point is proved that the infoset is so general that it's useful for 
security. :)

	/r$

-- 
Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology                           http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway   http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview  http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html





 

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