OPC = Open Packaging Convention; it's the official standard name for zip files.
The attraction of an OPC solution is you can protect anything just as you can zip anything so it would generate a universal solution. 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. I doubt the OOXML\ODF thing will go away just like pkix has cmc and cmp:) Would you consider OPC a more neutral solution? -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Farrell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:40 PM To: Trevor Freeman Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [plasma] Plasma and File protection Question 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? S. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#Standardization_process On 19/04/11 22:19, Trevor Freeman wrote: > Having agreed that files and are the conceptually the same as email > from a policy access control perspective, there is one important distinction. > > > > Email has a standard mechanism to define multiple parts of a message > to represent different aspects of the message i.e. MIME. > > > > We don't have that for files so we don't have a simple generic way to > attach the extra metadata to a file. > > > > Some standard file formats have specific extension mechanisms we can > use e.g. OOXML which would allow you to define a way to attach the > plasma metadata to the file type in question. > > > > Alternatively there exist generic file container standards what can > hold any combination of files and data e.g. OPC which would provide a > generic solution for any file type. > > > > If we were to expand files for consideration with Plasma, which would > be the best first step, a specific solution like OOXML or a generic > solution such as OPC? > > > > *Dr Trevor Freeman* Senior Security Strategist > > *End to End Trust Team > <http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/endtoendtrust/default.mspx>* > > *Microsoft Trustworthy > Computing<http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/default.mspx>* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > plasma mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma
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