Re: Summer reported activity [via Hardware Based Secure Services Community Group]

On 2016-08-29 16:16, W3C Community Development Team wrote:
> The Hardware Based Secure Services has entered into an interesting phase. As the
> report is finalized (except few editorial issues to solve),

This description of the current state ignores the fact that there are many and
quite fundamental outstanding issues raised by one CG member (me).  The chairs have
apparently declared those as "invalid".  That's OK but it could also backfire.


 > the CG members are
> prototyping. The prototypes are expected to be showed during the W3C TPAC F2F
> meeting in September in Lisbon. The targeted audience is
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>   CG members attending the meeting on monday (details to be transmitted soon on
> the mailing list), and
>   TPAC attendees on wednesday during a breakout session
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> The objective is to socialize the report and prototypes in order to get opinion
> from browser makers who objected to the creation of a working group on a similar scope.

My guess (FWIW) is that adding a "Trusted UI" and accessing pre-provisioned keys (read: smart cards)
will prove to be more than difficult to get acceptance for.

In addition, this work is squeezed between WebAuthentication (https://www.w3.org/Webauthn/)
and entirely different takes on how to extend the Web (https://www.w3.org/community/browserext/)
where the latter (among many things) enables Trusted UI/Crypto-using applications like:
https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/saturn/ui-demo/personalpaymentterminal.html

Anders


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Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 05:33:57 UTC