Hi Uri,

On 6/10/16 5:48 PM, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote:
> Canonicalization is the way to avoid file content being mangled or 
> represented differently by different (software) entities that try to create 
> or verify digital signature over it. It doesn't matter if your file is binary 
> or not. And CMS by itself won't save you either.‎ This problem (ensuring 
> there is only one way to represent the contents of the file in question) is 
> what you need to show that you solved.

I totally get it.  From a MIME perspective it'll be something like
application/mud+json, encoded in UTF-8, and transported accordingly
(HTTPS is 8-bit clean).  This is not going to be our problem.

Eliot


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