[foaf-protocols] Debugging results

[Nathan]

Henry Story wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2010, at 00:12, Nathan wrote:
> 
>> why not just:
>>
>> rsa:modulus "FDB6FB1159710EAEEC69BEE94..."^^xsd:hexBinary ;
>> rsa:public_exponent "65537"^^xsd:nonNegativeInteger .
>>
>> out of interest - never quite understood the cert:xxx's tbh.
> 
> 
> The reasons are documented in the ontology. So please give us feedback on the reasons you find there.

hmmm.. actually we've had this conversation before and I totally forgot 
- memory loss, do disregard.

> xsd:hexBinary is not a number but a binary string. Given that the maths of rsa and dsa are all in terms of integer arithemetic, adding a binary format intermediary seemed unecessary. 
> 
> You can use xsd:nonNegativeInteger, and xsd:int and cert:hex, and in the future
> cert:base64 if needed.  Those are all ways of expressing integer numbers.
> 
> See the Java code here for inspiration on how one can write this out
> 
> http://github.com/bblfish/foafssl-java/blob/master/foafssl-verifier/src/main/java/net/java/dev/sommer/foafssl/verifier/SesameFoafSslVerifier.java
> 
> Not that the code is a bit more complex because we are still dealing with the
> deprecated cert:hex and cert:decimal *properties*! But that is currently what most
> people have produced.
> 
> 
> Henry
>