Re: [office] Re: encryption

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Dave Pawson <>
Date
2009-09-01T17:22:37+00:00
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Re: [office] Re: encryption
2009/9/1 Bob Jolliffe <>:
> Thanks Ming Fei.  You summarized my concerns much better than I ..

> By opening up the third option (implementation defined algorithms) we
> maximize the choice but, as Ming Fei says, we risk the standard having no
> meaning or relevance regarding encryption.


Implementation defined is the usual cop-out for 'not standardised'.

Yet another interop no no?

So to Robs question
3) Do we allow implementation-defined algorithms beyond those which we
have assigned identifiers to?

Definite no.

Try and develop a standard?


regards



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