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Re: Canonicalization software

• To: Robin LaFontaine <robin@d...>
• Subject: Re: Canonicalization software
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:18:17 -0500
• Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
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> That makes sense, and is nice and simple. I had imagined these tools 
> were more advanced! I guess this means not many people are using 
> canonicalizers commercially.

No, it means that not many people have Elliotte's direct need.

Anytime someone does XML DSIG, they are using canonicalization, but most 
often they are fed right into a SHA-1 processor, and not output directly.

	/r$

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Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
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