XML RPM Header (was: Re: Change to bzip2?)

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:26 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> Headers are gonna change in rpm-4.4.2 to permit use of xml to represent
> header content, and there's four or five other flaws that need addressing
> at the same time (like permitting an array of binary elements, and adding
> an ASN.1 like type to ease tertirary lookup of data embedded in tags
> (think: signature/pubkey fingerprints.)

Since the RPM headers are going to be in XML, what about using XML
Signatures?

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/
http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/

Jeff

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