Re: Web Crypto - GlobalPlatform collaboration proposal

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> +1. Please don't do Key Transport. Coughing up a secret to any server
> that answers is still a bad idea. Please don't back door it with
> overrides and then claim they are "user approved".

Jeff,
What would the use-case be for "Coughing up a secret to any server"?

Anders

>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:57 AM,  <gil.bernabeu@globalplatform.org> wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> Following the W3C WebCrypto.next workshop that showed strong focus and
>> support for accessing HW security tokens, GlobalPlatform believes that there
>> are different use cases that need to be supported for Web applications, and
>> that different solutions should be considered jointly.
>>
>>
>> - Accessing to a crypto engine
>> -> W3C Webcrypto.next should allow selecting different crypto environment
>> such as software, Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) based, Secure
>> element(SE) based , ….this will allow a web app to perform the crypto
>> function in a environment compatible with his own risk management if
>> available in the device.
>>
>> - Accessing to standardized services (eg FIDO, webpki ...)
>> - > W3C should create an unique API that combined with a specific middleware
>> automatically deployed (eg service or crypto environment specific) will
>> allow a Web App to be as independent as possible from each specific
>> implementation of the service
>>
>> - Accessing to secure services that are not standardized (eg most of the SE
>> or TEE services today)
>> As part of the security rules, end 2 end security requirements doesn’t allow
>> the browser to create or modify an encrypted command to access a secure
>> services hosted in a TEE or in SE. The commands to be sent to an application
>> hosted in a TEE or in SE are created in a secure cloud and only needs to be
>> forwarded to the secure component. To support this market requirement, web
>> app needs to have a simple layer to pass command to the secure component.
>> W3C should allow web app to access to similar service as proposed by TEE
>> client API for the TEE or Open Mobile API for the SE presented by Herve
>> during the Workshop.
>>
>> - Control of access HW security services – just as there are requirements on
>> control of access to a Secure Application from an OS, for instance
>> permissions based on identification of the client application, a similar
>> solution should be deployed to control access from websites to Secure
>> Applications.
>>
>> GlobalPlatform is ready to provides with such web app open source APIs is
>> full collaboration with W3C environment.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> ----------- Gil BERNABEU ---------------
>> GlobalPlatform Technical Director
>> http://www.globalplatform.org
>

Received on Friday, 24 October 2014 14:31:48 UTC