Re: SigningTable (was: SigingTable)

From: SM <sm_at_resistor.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:44:41 -0800

Hi Murray,
At 22:21 21-02-10, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>Close. You would add those two entries to the SigningTable as keys
>(in the database sense, not in the crypto sense), with the names of
>keys (in the crypto sense) as values. For example:
>
>SigningTable:
> KEY VALUE
> sm_at_example.com key1
> msk_at_example.com key2

In the SigningTable, do we use a colon as a separator between the KEY
and VALUE?

>A match in the SigningTable gives you the name of a record in the
>KeyTable, and that KeyTable record gives you the signing domain,
>selector, and private key to use when generating the signature.

BTW, I am trying to follow the same logic irrespective of whether the
dataset is file based or in a database.

Regards,
-sm
Received on Mon Feb 22 2010 - 06:45:08 PST