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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:51:36 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8345 Summary: The keygen element ought to be extended to support elliptic curve keys. This is especially important in light of NIST guidelines (see pg 63, 66 in http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/SP800- 57Part1_3-8-07.pdf (pg 63, pg 66) in http://csrc.nist Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: Other URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the- keygen-element OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: HTML5 spec bugs AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-keygen-element Comment: The keygen element ought to be extended to support elliptic curve keys. This is especially important in light of NIST guidelines (see pg 63, 66 in http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/SP800-57Part1_3-8-07.pdf (pg 63, pg 66) in http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/SP800-57Part1_3-8-07.pdf). Elliptic Curve Cryptography is already integrated into Firefox, IE and Apache and many other products (see http://blogs.sun.com/vipul/entry/next_generation_security_for_the). Posted from: 204.153.12.52 -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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