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Re: Digital signatures have a big problem with meaning

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Tue Jun 7 18:45:05 2005

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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:34:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
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Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Yup, see "Why XML Security is Broken",
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/xmlsec.txt, for more on this.

Peter's shared earlier drafts with me, and we've exchanged email about this.
The only complaint that has a factual basis is this:
        I don't want to have to implement XML processing to do
        XML Digital Signatures

The others are just blowing smoke, or "proof by snarkiness." :)

        /r$

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


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