- From: Alexander Mueller <alexm@gmx.at>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:16:00 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Preston L. Bannister wrote: > Folks, you are re-inventing the wheel, and repeating classic mistakes. As far as the technology used to implement the system is concerned, yes. Generally however the proposal does not want to introduce a brand new technique but rather only wants to define a new input type. > > There is a lack. It is (or should be) possible to do secure logins across > unencrypted channels. What is needed is access to an encryption library from > Javascript. That would be outside to scope of the HTML specification. Eventually yes, but this is already mostly covered by SSL. However, as mentioned this isnt primarily to have a new encryption standard to programming interface, but rather to have a defined HTML element which tells the client to preprocess its data in a certain way. Alexander -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser
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