A somewhat lame Web Crypto PIN provisioning solution

Since an issuer of a key has (if I didn't got it all wrong...) full "usage" access to a key it has issued including signing whatever it wants there are obviously some trust isolation limits of the Web Crypto API.  Note: I don't see that as a big problem.

Anyway, in such a context it wouldn't be completely wrong adding something like a "setPIN (value, retries)" method to a key which for subsequent uses of the key would require the user providing a matching PIN.

The policy of the PIN would be defined in a traditional web-process.

Anders

Received on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:11:10 UTC