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qn about sending message digest over https

 
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Is it possible to send a digital signature(created using message digester) over https?

This is mandated by one of my customers, they want some sort of digital signature sent over the wire(they don't care if we are coming through http or https).

The digital signature being sent is already md5/sha-1 encrypted. Since https applies another level of encryption, is it possible that this digital signature message is not retrieved properly on the https receiver end???
 
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Originally posted by Kishore Dandu:
Is it possible to send a digital signature(created using message digester) over https?


Yes, it is. It doesn't matter whether the content of a POST request is an image, some XML document, or a seemingly random sequence of characters such as a digital signature.
 
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Seconding Lasse. Do you have any specific problems?

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If I create a Message digest and send across the wire, what is the best way to post if I want to make sure it does not follow a predictable pattern(if I base64 encode the digest it always defaults to a specific string value)

Since I can not post a byte array, I may have to convert it to a string; if I do this conversion wouldn't that cause problem to verify on the receiver end??
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