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Subject: FW: DSS action on hash based signatures
I am forwarding conclusions from John & Trevor regarding the impact of supporting the use of hash / digest based signatures through the DSS protocol. Any othjer views? Nick -----Original Message----- From: jmessing [mailto:jmessing@law-on-line.com] Sent: 11 November 2003 22:06 To: Nick Pope; John Messing; Steve Gray; Trevor Perrin; Trevor Perrin Cc: Juan Carlos Cruellas Subject: Re: DSS action on hash based signatures ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:19:52 -0800 >At 09:06 PM 11/11/2003 +0000, Nick Pope wrote: > >>John, Steve,Trevor, >> >>To help on progressing the action on outlining the implication of supporting >>the hash based signatures in DSS the following are the issues that I believe >>that need to be answered for this technique to be supported by DSS: >> >>a) Does this require a change in the scope of DSS to incorporate technoiques >>other than digitial signatures ? > >I don't think so. > > > >>b) Is the existing core specification sufficiently flexible to cover this >>case ? > >I think so. > > > >>c) Is the resulting signature a form of XML Signature or some other >>structure? > >John, have the people you mentioned, I think the state courts, got to this >level of detail? > No. > >>d) Is there need for a profile to be defined for support of hash based >>signatures? Is this work to be carried out within DSS or elsewhere? > >John or Steve, do you know of anyone who'd be interested in such a >profile? I.e., willing to join DSS and participate in making one? > > I can ask the LegalXML Court Filing TC. > >>e) Does the DSS need to give guidance on the security implications of using >>hash based signatures? > >I think that could be left to a profile. Agreed. > >Trevor > >
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