Re: [xri] SimpleSign for estabilishing the authenticity of XRD.

[Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Sakimura Nat <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp> wrote:
> So in the TC call, there was a mention that you are quite close to being in agreement.
> Are you settling down to thie algorithm #4 (2.4 in the wiki)?
>
> I have still got a feeling that 2.2 way of doing it might not be that hard, and trying to figure them out
> in various languages, but yes, 2.4 is bullet proof, though the size of the document gets more than
> dobuled. (Perhaps we can gzip the string to make it slightly better.)

gzip in the doc itself won't save much given that we can already use
HTTP content compression.  User-agent and library support is
excellent.