Re: [plasma] Plasma and File protection Question

OPC sounds like an appropriate container then.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Trevor Freeman <
trevorf@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:

>  OPC = Open Packaging Convention; it’s the official standard name for zip
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> The attraction of an OPC solution is you can protect anything just as you
> can zip anything so it would generate a universal solution.
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> Both OOXML and ODF are widely used standards with multi-vendor support.
>   The reason to cited them as examples is that they have a documented file
> format with extension points we could use to build a solution.
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> I doubt the OOXML\ODF thing will go away just like pkix has cmc and cmpJ
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> Would you consider OPC a more neutral solution?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Farrell [mailto:stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:40 PM
> To: Trevor Freeman
> Cc: plasma@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [plasma] Plasma and File protection Question
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> I've no idea what OPC is but I'd have thought that OOXML would likely be
> controversial - or have all the word processing types made up since the
> OOXML/ODF kerfuffle [1] of a few years ago?
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#Standardization_process
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> On 19/04/11 22:19, Trevor Freeman wrote:
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> > Having agreed that files and are the conceptually the same as email
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> > from a policy access control perspective, there is one important
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> > Email has a standard mechanism to define multiple parts of a message
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> > to represent different aspects of the message i.e. MIME.
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> > We don’t have that for files so we don’t have a simple generic way to
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> > attach the extra metadata to a file.
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> > Some standard file formats have specific extension mechanisms we can
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> > use e.g. OOXML which would allow you to define a way to attach the
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> > plasma metadata to the file type in question.
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> > Alternatively there exist generic file container standards what can
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> > hold any combination of files and data e.g. OPC which would provide a
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> > generic solution for any file type.
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> > If we were to expand files for consideration with Plasma, which would
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