Re: In support of ASN.1 key formats

On 03/21/2016 06:49 PM, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I read in this ticket
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=532728 that
> there are discussions in the working group to drop ASN.1 key formats
> support from the web crypto standard.
>
> >From my work on creating a web crypto-compatible node.js module I
> would like to add my support for keeping ASN.1 key formats around.
> ASN.1 is widely supported and it is relatively easy to work with.
> Making formats compatible allows really thin layer of abstractions
> around existing crypto libraries.

We would not drop it from existing implementations. Of course, we are
working to see if we can get interop here, as discussed in today's
meeting. Jim Schaad will have a proposal out shortly.

  cheers,
   harry

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> Mitar
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Received on Monday, 21 March 2016 23:05:21 UTC