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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Too many "SIGNATURE"s in D-BUS
From:       "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler () dwheeler ! com>
Date:       2005-01-21 17:28:45
Message-ID: E1Cs2aU-0003js-2Z () fetch ! runbox ! com
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The term "SIGNATURE" has too many meanings.  It's
the type signature for a variant data value;
the type signature of the entire message
(whose type is also SIGNATURE), and if it's
secured it's the digital signature of the message.
Ugh.

I suggest changing the D-BUS type "SIGNATURE"
(code 'g') to "TSIGNATURE" in the
conventional name/code/description table for types,
and changing the heading field table so that
decimal code 8 "SIGNATURE" has the
conventional name "BODY_TSIGNATURE"
with the type "TSIGNATURE".

--- David A. Wheeler

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