ebxml-msg message

Subject: Re: [ebxml-msg] security problem with ebXML MS

From: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
To: "Damodaran, Suresh" <Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:19:00 -0500

"Damodaran, Suresh" wrote:
> 
> Why do you need to Base64 encode in your Canonicalization rules,
> wouldn't the field body be already text? Or am I not understanding
> you right?

Because the XML document may be encoded in a different character set
than the 7bit USASCII that MIME headers use.

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References:
- RE: [ebxml-msg] security problem with ebXML MS
  - From: "Damodaran, Suresh" <Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com>