Re: newbie Question about PKCS#7

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 16:04, Tom Gindin wrote:
>       My question can be most simply stated as whether a reference with
> neither type nor transform is to be interpreted as a transparent octet
> stream to be fed to the digest algorithms, and if not, what syntax is
> interpreted that way?

As Christian noted, it depends on the URI.

>  I am trying to ensure that we have a syntax
> defined for data that will NOT be interpreted as XML.  A very simple
> example would be the following:
> <Reference URI="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3075.txt">
> <DigestMethod Algorithm
> ="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1"/><DigestValue>Xyz=</DigestValue
>> </Reference>

Yes, it directly digests the octets in the HTTP entity-body returned upon 
dereferencing that URI.