Re: [office] Proper identifier for Excel-style digest algorithm

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Title: Re: [office] Proper identifier for Excel-style digest algorithm

The W3C uses the same URI to indicate which algorithm us used in calculating the hash value.  This is key to making the system work.

They use it as an attribute of the 





On 07/07/08 12:03 PM, "Kohei Yoshida" <kyoshida@novell.com> wrote:

> The question I'd like to ask the list members is this: what identifier
> should we use as the value of the table:protection-key-digest-algorithm
> attribute to refer to the new algorithm?  The current definition for
> this attribute:
>
> <attribute name="table:protection-key-digest-algorithm"
>            a:defaultValue="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1">
>     <ref name="anyURI"/>
> </attribute>
>
> suggests that the name must be a URI.  But I'm not sure what URI to use
> for this new algorithm.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Kohei
>
> [1] http://kohei.us/2008/01/18/excel-sheet-protection-password-hash/
>
> --
> Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc.
> <kyoshida@novell.com>

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