Arvola Chan wrote:
> Regarding Rich's comment that a service may want to sign everything it
> generates, an Acknowledgment message can always be signed. The issue is
> whether the Acknowledgment element needs to include ds:Reference elements
> that contain digests for the MIME parts of the original message. I don't
> think it is reasonable to mandate that the receiver MUST calculate the
> digests if they were not included in the original message in the first
> place.
I agree; I wasn't saying the server MUST do that, but for its own
protection it should be ALLOWED to do that.
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