Re: T2 Retry with Delivery Receipt

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@Sun.COM>]

Dan Weinreb wrote:
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> 
> I have not yet managed to fully comprehend the XMLDSIG spec.  There
> isn't, by any chance, a way to use XMLDSIG solely for creating and
> transmitting a message digest, without any digital signature?  If
> there were, we could
> 
> -- Require message digests on those messages that are unsigned

Don't think we can go this far. We can recommend it, but we cannot 
require it.

> -- Recommend message digests, ditto, ditto.

We can do this as well. Digests are easy to calculate. We could
and possibly should provide a means for accommodating a digest
value as a separate header. We could easily steal from DSig for this.

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