Re: [Boost-users] Stability of Boost::Serialization XML Output

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Stability of Boost::Serialization XML Output
From: Andreas Neustifter (andreas.neustifter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-14 08:27:13

On 13 August 2013 18:11, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Andreas Neustifter wrote:
>
> > To summarize:
> >
> > - C++ objects are serialized to XML with Boost::Serialization (XML is
> > used since date has to be as human readable as possible).
> >
> > - Serialized XML has to be digitally signed.
> >
> > - XMLDsig is complicated [1]
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > Does Boost::Serialization with the XML backend produce bytewise the
> > same data every time?
>
> This would not and could not be guarenteed across differing library versions
> and platforms.

I thought so but still: thanks for your answer...

> I would guess that the best way to handle this would be to incorporate
> XMLDsig compliance into the xml serialization (xml_?archive) itself.
> I have no doubt what this is a difficult task - but that's why we make
> the big bucks.

Who is? :) No honestly: its out of the scope of my project to
implement a complicated thing as XMLDsig into the boost archiver... So
I guess I will hack something together and hope it works...

Andreas