Shibboleth Developers

[Jim Fox <>]

I'd say we can deliver the modulus only, and skip the exponent altogether.

Jim

> Generally, 2 simple numbers. One of them does tend to recur often, true, but 
> may not in any given case.
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> From: Jim Fox 
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> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:09 PM
> To: Scott Cantor 
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> Subject: RE: [Shib-Dev] how to deliver personal infocard keyinfo to app?
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> > I wonder if we should consider just extracting the public key in all cases
> > (even if a self-signed cert is used) and then exporting the key as base64'd
> > DER (rather than in XML form).
>
> Works for me.  The thing we give to an app is just a unique
> bunch of bits anyway.  Both ie and digitalme use 1024 bit
> keys.  So translates to 256 bytes binary and about 350 in base64.
>
> Should make processing on the app easier as well, since the
> 'value' is a simple number (long one) and not xml.
>
> Jim