Fwd: [Widgets] SonyEricsson's position on Elliptic Curve and x509v3

Frederick - re the XML Signature algorithms vis-à-vis the Widgets 1.0  
Digital Signature spec [1], below are comments on Elliptic Curve from  
WebApps WG member SonyEricsson.

-Regards, Art Barstow

[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-digsig-20090331/>


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> From: "ext Braun, Andrew" <Andrew.Braun@sonyericsson.com>
> Date: March 4, 2009 9:16:55 AM EST
> To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
> Subject: RE: [Widgets] Opera's position on Elliptic Curve and x509v3
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/ 
> B7B2E88280255C40A477C45E46CF6C25133776004C@usrtmbx01.corpusers.net>
>
> I agree with both of Marcos's points here.
>
> I support postponing elliptic curve to later version
>
> I also agree restricting x509 to version 3 is ok
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-webapps-request@w3.org [mailto:public-webapps- 
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Marcos Caceres
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:25 AM
> To: Frederick Hirsch; public-webapps; ext Priestley, Mark, VF-Group
> Cc: Arve Bersvendsen
> Subject: [Widgets] Opera's position on Elliptic Curve and x509v3
>
> At the F2F, I agreed to ascertain Opera's position on adding elliptic
> curve support and restricting x509 to version 3.
>
> Wrt Eliptic Curve, Opera would prefer _not_ to have elliptic curve
> support for version 1 of Widgets Dig Sig, but would possibly like to
> see its inclusion in future version of the spec.
>
> Wrt restricting to x509 to version 3, we are ok with this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcos
>
> -- 
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
>